Correspondence Between Pertev Naili Boratav And Oğuz Tansel / PERTEV NAILI BORATAV-OĞUZ TANSEL MEKTUPLAŞMASI

Prof. Dr. Pertev Naili Boratav who studied in various fields of folklore and produced many works is one of the researchers played an important role in winning the real meaning of scientific and dignity of folklore studies in Turkey. Oğuz Tansel as Boratav’s student is both a major poet and a writer as well as a major folklore researcher. As a whole, Pertev Naili Boratav as teacher is the one of the most contributors to the formation of Oğuz Tansel name but particularly the emergence and development of Tansel’s folklorist identity. Oğuz Tansel who had been interested in folk culture thanks to the growing environment since his early years placed his interests to a scientific ground after meeting with Boratav. With this meeting, the foundation of a strong and lifelong friendship including family member between Boratav and Tansel is discarded. So in the forthcoming period, Boratav and Tansel began a correspondence including the evaluation and discussion on the scientific, artistic, cultural and personal issues and they corresponded for years extending from the 1950s to the 1990s. Today, some of these mutual letters are in the private archive of Tansel family and some are in the Archive of Pertev Naili Boratav in History Foundation. This study aims to introduce these letters to especially folklore, the scientific and art circles related with Boratav and Tansel. Therefore, in this study, the letters are dealt with major outline and evaluated in terms of form and content features