Aziz Merhan

Keywords: Old Anatolian Turkish, Çarhname, Tuhfe-yi Mübarizi, Behcetü’lHadayık, Sultan Valad

Abstract

The question of what the first Turkish work written in Anatolia is, has made many researches think and in order to answer that question they made studies. The first one to engage in this question was Fuad Köprülüzade (1926) and after him till today many opinions has been brought forward. Many of these opinions claim that the first work is Çarhname, Tuhfe-yi Mübarizi or Behcetü'l-Hadayik. This article deals with this question that still has not an answer