Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 in the Folk Songs of Crimean Tatars
Journal Title: Türk Dünyası Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi - Year 2020, Vol 1, Issue 49
Abstract
In the late 19th century, Europe’s most powerful states increased their influence over China and tried to take control over some parts of this country. At the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, the mandates of Britain, France and Germany on the Chinese territory had been finalized. The Russian Empire was also involved in this struggle over China, trying to have a non-icy harbour in the Pacific Ocean. The main interests of Russia were concentrated in Manchuria. This was not appropriate for the interests of the Japanese Empire. Thus, the Manchurian region of China became a place where the interests of the two countries clashed. As a result of this, at the beginning of 1904, the war known as the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War occurred between the two countries. At that time, the Russian Empire sent thousands of soldiers living in different parts of Russia to the Far East to fight against the Japanese. Among these soldiers, there were many Turkic-Muslims living within the borders of the Russian Empire. There were also a significant number of Crimean Tatar soldiers among them. What happened during this war, which resulted in the victory of the Japanese, has been the subject of Crimean Tatar folk literature products and especially folk songs. These folk songs were first included in the studies of researchers such as Olesnitskiy and Samoylovich. In this study, the events mentioned in the Crimean Tatar folk songs were evaluated in the light of historical information.
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Niyar Kurtbilal
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.24155/tdk.2020.128
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