Kazan Bey Oğlu Uruz Bey'in Tutsak Olduğu Boy'un Tarihi

The fourth epic in the Book of Dede Korkut is the Kazan Bey Oglu Uruz Bey’in Tutsak Oldugu Boy. There are two main historical-geographical, literary-cultural layers in Kazan Bey Oglu Uruz Bey’in Tutsak Oldugu Boy: the lower layer and the upper layer. The lower layer consists of the Gokturk-Turgesh layer and the Oghuz layer. Like many other Dede Korkut epics, the oldest periods layer and the Scythian/Saka-Xiongnu-Kangju-Wusun layer can be found in Kazan Bey Oglu Uruz Bey’in Tutsak Oldugu Boy. An important historical layer of the Kazan Bey Oglu Uruz Bey’in Tutsak Oldugu Boy is related to the GokturkTurgesh period. There are many historical-epic-legendary-mythological layers, the oldest of which reaches the depths of history, in the Salur Kazan/Kazan type, the protagonist of the epic, which has an important place in Dede Korkut. An important historical layer of the  Araştırmacı yazar, İstanbul-Türkiye. E-posta: dursuncaneyuboglu@gmail.com. ORCID: 0000-0003-