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TURK KULTURU VE HACI BEKTAS VELI-ARASTIRMA DERGISI, no.62, pp.325-338, 2012 (AHCI)
HHuseyin Gursoy (Ashik Huseyin) is an important figure of ashik tradition whose fame spread from Sivas-Sarikaya to the rest of Anatolia. Ashik Huseyin who was born in 1907 in Sivas-Sarkisla-Sarikaya has a powerful and effective style, extemporary sayings and simple and sincere utterance in his poems like his contemporaries Ashik Veysel and Haji Fedai. In his poems he uses a plain language and he expresses his loyalty to the Prophet Muhammad, his household, the Twelve Imams and the Anatolian Dervishes. Because his poems haven't been collected and compiled yet, some minstrels have claimed that some of his poems belonged to them and they published the poems as if they belonged to them. This causes some problems in researches about him. Another important problem is that the fluency of these poems are ruined as they were transferred from language to language into new generations and the structural elements of the poems (measure, rhyme, etc.) were destroyed in time. These poems compiled from Ashik Veysel and Vahit Poyraz who are the symbols of Sivas and Anatolia, must be compared with Ashik All Izzet's, Karacaoglan's and Pir Sultan's poems in accordance with scientific criteria.