Studying the Complexity Through Turkish Epics

The twentieth century witnessed many scientific, technological and economic developments that triggered socio-cultural changes. People, organizations, and systems have begun to interact more than ever before, thus becoming even more interdependent to each other. Now any change anywhere can affect and change everyone else. The Covid-19 case, which we are dealing with globally, is the clearest example of this situation. To put it in the language of complexity, a virus flapping its wings in China has caused a pandemic in the world. Therefore, complexity has become the most fundamental feature of our current society, and understanding complexity has now become a necessity rather than a choice. This study, which is shaped around these thoughts, aims to explain the idea of complexity with its key concepts through Turkish epics. The choice of Turkish epics as intermediary texts is because they are rich in genre, structure and social events in their content. In this context, firstly, the idea of complexity was explained briefly in terms of its philosophical and historical foundations, and a metaphorical framework containing the key concepts of complexity was touched upon. Afterwards, Turkish epics were evaluated within the framework of this metaphorical complexity. The study, in a sense, is an epistemological attempt to explain complexity through Turkish epics.