{"id":3353,"date":"2024-03-12T20:55:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T20:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/karagoz-and-hacivat-their-origins-and-true-identities\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:09:46","slug":"karagoz-and-hacivat-their-origins-and-true-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/karagoz-and-hacivat-their-origins-and-true-identities\/","title":{"rendered":"Karag\u00f6z and Hacivat: Their Origins and True Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Karag\u00f6z and Hacivat are the most important characters of traditional Turkish shadow play.  These games have existed for centuries, along with the middle game and meddah tradition, which are an important part of Turkish culture.  These games, which both entertain and make people think, have sometimes been effective in creating social awareness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to rumors, <strong>The origin of Karag\u00f6z and Hacivat <\/strong>It is based on two workers working during the construction of the Grand Mosque in Bursa.  Due to the delay in construction, these two workers were unjustly executed.  This tragic story led to the emergence of the characters Karag\u00f6z and Hacivat.  However, the origins and stories of these characters have evolved into many different versions over time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Traditional Turkish shadow play<\/strong>The main characters of <strong>Hacivat and Karag\u00f6z<\/strong>, <strong>Ramadan month<\/strong>They are important figures that increase the enthusiasm of .  \u015eeyh K\u00fc\u015fteri, who manipulated the Hacivat and Karag\u00f6z puppets behind the scenes in this shadow play, which was performed by communities in ancient times with the participation of children, made these characters well-known.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Hacivat-ve-Karagoz2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12243\" style=\"width:820px;height:auto\" title=\"\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-hacivat-ve-karagoz-aslinda-kimdir\"><strong>Who Are Hacivat and Karag\u00f6z Actually?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The origin of Hacivat and Karag\u00f6z,<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/bursa-ulu-caminin-sirlari\/\">  Grand Mosque in Bursa<\/a><\/strong>It is based on two workers working in the construction of . <strong>While Karag\u00f6z is a blacksmith, Hacivat is a bricklayer.<\/strong>.  Being unfairly blamed for the slow progress of construction <strong>These characters were executed<\/strong>, was later represented in the shadow play.  Shadow play is a genre based on imitation and mutual conversation, performed behind the scenes with two-dimensional depictions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karag\u00f6z <\/strong>The player is often called a fictional or dreamer.  He has various assistants during the game;  such as apprentice, helper, helper and treasurer.  Speech changes between characters are often expressed through head movements.<strong> &#8216;Hacivat and Karag\u00f6z&#8217;<\/strong>There is no definitive information about whether the characters actually lived or in which city they lived, but these characters <strong>An important part of Turkish culture <\/strong>They are considered as.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12244\" src=\"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Hacivat-ve-Karagoz3-1024x768.jpeg\" data-lazy- title=\"\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Hacivat-ve-Karagoz3-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12244\" title=\"\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p><strong>According to rumors<\/strong>The story of Hacivat and Karag\u00f6z is quite diverse.  According to a rumor, Hac\u0131 \u0130vaz A\u011fa or commonly known as Hacivat and Karag\u00f6z, a blacksmith master from the village of Samakol in Thrace, are two workers working in the construction of a mosque in Bursa.  However, they do not work themselves and prevent other workers from working.<\/p>\n<p>When the mosque cannot be completed on time, the architect of the mosque complains to Hacivat and Karag\u00f6z.  Thereupon, these two are executed by beheading.  However, \u015eeyh K\u00fc\u015fteri, who was loved and saddened by many people after their deaths, started to play behind the scenes by making puppets of Hacivat and Karag\u00f6z.  In this way, Hacivat and Karag\u00f6z become known.<\/p>\n<p>These narrations reflect different perspectives on how Hacivat and Karag\u00f6z were known throughout history and how the shadow play was born.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To join our WhatsApp group <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/GcUb561wzz44AcjKoMQHY6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><h5>Share<\/h5>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karag\u00f6z and Hacivat are the most important characters of traditional Turkish shadow play. These games have existed for centuries, along with the middle game and meddah tradition, which are an important part of Turkish culture. These games, which both entertain and make people think, have sometimes been effective in creating social awareness. According to rumors, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1873],"tags":[3485,3486,3484,2905,2029],"class_list":["post-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-who","tag-hacivat","tag-identities","tag-karagoz","tag-origins","tag-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}