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Anatolian and Turkish Cypriot folk tales are oral narratives that are fed by similar sources and contain common content, structure, form, and function features. While the Turkish Cypriots migrated from Anatolia to the island, they brought together the cultures, social insights, beliefs, and narratives of the regions they came from and blended them with the island culture and transferred them to future generations. Depending on the island geography, the Turkish Cypriot people melted various place names, geographical shapes, and social conditions within the folk tales over the years and added many different elements from Anatolia to the fairy tales. For example, the priest type and various Greek characters take part in fairy tales as well as different elements of Christian culture are mentioned in the narrations. While evaluating the cultural elements in Anatolian and Turkish Cypriot tales, culinary culture, handicrafts, crafts, beliefs, religion, social life, architecture, games, weddings, dowry, feast-banquet, fairy-tale motifs, folk types etc. were taken into consideration as well as how these cultural elements take place in fairy tales. Many similar cultural elements have been identified between Anatolian and Turkish folk tales. Qualitative research was applied as a research method and document analysis was used to collect data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is an undeniable fact that drink consumption occupies an important place in human life. As an integral part of food, beverages are also consumed after meals. Although it may seem like an obligation, foods and beverages are shaped by the society and the culture that belongs to that society. Every society has adapted some beverages for this reason or another while some others have been forgotten in time. When the island was conquered by the Turks in 1571, people from different parts of Anatolia were settled in the island, and they brought together the culture of catering with other cultural elements. They also invented different foods and beverages using various ingredients. Inaddition, due to the cultural interaction with the Greek community in the island, some beverages are consumed by Greeks whereas some other unique to Greek community are accepted by Turks. In the study, the beverages which have an important function in the lives of the Turkish Cypriots will be displayed and their usage and social functions will be evaluated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In such literature works as sagas, novels, stories and dramas which are based on events, there is a character called "protagonist" who performs the event and is in the central position according to the story line of the work. He/she is in the centre of the work. The protagonist of the Hasan Bulliler novel and Saga is Hasan Bulli. In his lifetime, Hasan Bulli is a saga hero who was seen as a hero by both the Turks and the Greeks who stood against the oppressor governments in the country. In Hasan Bulliler Saga and the novel which was written based on the saga, the story of three brothers and their advocates who took the mountains and lived there for years after being convicted with unjust accusations in the early years of British administration in Cyprus is told. In the novel Hasan Bulliler, Nazemin Gelen wrote about Hasan Bulliler and his family departing from historical facts. In our article, starting from Hasan Bulli brothers, we display the historical events that Cypriot Turks experienced in these years and the socio-cultural life of the era. Nevertheless, based on our cultural values that we brought today from those years, we saw that the novel played an essential role in cultural communication between generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]