THE IDEA OF THE ENEMY IN THE WRITTEN EPICS OF THE OGHUZ TURKS
“The book of Dede Korkut” consists of twelve songs-chapters, which tells about the exploits of the Oghuz heroes. The core plot of “The book of Dede Korkut” which is surrounded by these stories is the fight of the Oghuz people with the infidels ( kafir ) surrounding them on all sides in the lands of Asia Minor, and feuds among the Oghuz. An external enemy for the Oghuz has specific and at the same time mythological features, thereby marking the boundary between the world of the nomads and neighboring sedentary world (the infidels-the lords of fortresses, which is attacked by heroes of “the Book of Dede Korkut”).