UNESCO Somut Olmayan Kültürel Miras Kavramı Çerçevesinde Nasreddin Hoca Fıkralarının Sürdürülebilirliği

Abstract

The jokes, which has ocurred around the character of Nasreddin Hoca, born in Eskişehir's Hortu village (now named as Nasreddin Hoca) in 1208, and which has grown in number through the centuries and are always actual with the messages they give, are among the most important products of our cultural intangible heritage.Nasreddin Hoca's jokes are well-known not only in the Turkic world, but also in Islamic countries as well as Europe. The most important reasons of this prevalence are because the messages of these jokes are universal and they keep being used in modern culture and they also have a productive/fertile nature.Ministry of Culture and Tourism started working in 2013 to make the tradition of telling Nasreddin Hoca's jokes to be taken in UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity because of their prevalence on a vast geography, from Cenral Asia to Europe, and because of their sustainability.In this article, the sustainability of Nasreddin Hoca's jokes are examined within the principles UNESCO determined and with the help of jokes and joke-telling environment the arguments put forward are explained