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Bektashi mecmuas (journals) and conks come to the fore among the written sources that help to
determine the place of Yunus in Alevi-Bektashi poetry, which was influenced by Yunus Emre’s style.
These poems recorded in journals were probably composed in Alevi-Bektashi rites and assemblies
and performed in divine form. Since there are very few written sources that tell us how this survival
and continuation situation developed in the Alevi-Bektashi cultural environment in the historical
process, mecmuas and conks are among the important written sources at this point. Tevfik Othman
Baba, who we think lived in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century,
has his own mecmua. This journal provides important data in explaining the relationship of the AleviBektashi groups with the poems of Yunus. There are 23 Yunus poems in 541 Alevi-Bektashi poems in this source, which is a Bektashi mecmua. The mecmua, which we learned that the poems were mostly
recorded in Bektashi lodges in a wide geography from Istanbul to the Balkans, successfully reflects
the situation of Yunus’s poems in the Alevi-Bektashi cultural environment in the last century. Two
of the Yunus poems in Tevfik Otman Baba’s mecmua belong to Âşık Yunus and the others belong to
Yunus Emre, who uses the pseudonyms Yunus and Derviş Yunus. When the Yunus poems that Tevfik
Othman Baba included in his mecmua are examined, it is seen that these are poems that overlap
with the principles of the Alevism-Bektashism way, support the rites of this way and contribute to
the explanation of the way. The poems in the şathiye type, which attract a lot of attention in AleviBektashi poetry in the mecmua are widely accepted as being sung by the folk poets belonging to
this group, are remarkable. Othman Baba added the poems that we can call the devriye to the Yunus
poems in the şathiye type. In short, Yunus poems in Tevfik Othman Baba’s mecmua show that Yunus
Emre was taken into account in Bektashi circles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his
poems, like many other Alevi-Bektashi poets, continued to be recorded in mecmuas.