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Journal of Current Researches on Social Sciences - JoCReSS, vol.7, no.2, pp.125-146, 2017 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Hakkâri,
one of the cities in the east
part of Turkey, is very rich in terms of its cultural
heritage, including weddings. Every society has its own cultural
wedding traditions. As for the weddings in Hakkâri, it cannot be expressed
by words. People who participate in wedding
ceremonies in the region knowhow lively
and full of fun they are. Besides the amusement, the cultural
traditions related to marriage are also noteworthy. As in the other areas of
life, there have been a lot of changes in cultural wedding traditions
in the region in this century. In
this study, we have tried to handle the weddings both in
the past and in the present time to make a comparison between
them. We hope that cultural wedding traditions of Hakkâri belonging to both
periods will attract a great
attention of the ones who are interested in culture,
tradition and customs of different societies and we hope that there
will be a positive contribution to the cultural heritage of Hakkâri province.
We wish
this
study
would
make
a
significant
contribution
in
both
introducing wedding traditions, one of the important elements of the region
culture, and protecting it against the external factors that could affect it in
a negative way.