The Dede Korkut Ethic

@article{Meeker1992TheDK,
  title={The Dede Korkut Ethic},
  author={Michael E. Meeker},
  journal={International Journal of Middle East Studies},
  year={1992},
  volume={24},
  pages={395 - 417},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:162799102}
}
The Book of Dede Korkut is an early record of oral Turkic folktales in Anatolia, and as such, one of the mythic charters of Turkish nationalist ideology. The oldest versions of the Book of Dede… 
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