Images of the Enemy in the Koroglu Saga

Epics are the largest heroic themed works of Turkish folk literature. These works have brought historical events and heroism to our time in an artistic and figurative language. From this point of view, one of the epics that has a deep place in the memory of the Turks and dozens of neighboring peoples is the Koroglu Saga. The saga is divided into two major versions due to the antiquity of the formation period and the breadth of its distribution area. There are about five hundred versions of the saga in these versions, called the Eastern and Western versions. Since the Azerbaijani and Turkmen versions of the Koroglu Saga cover almost both versions, the study of the problems of these variants is important in terms of studying the whole epos. This article compares the heroes of the Azerbaijani and Turkmen versions of the Koroglu Saga with their pros and cons, and provides information about the images of the enemy.