Issue 87 · Autumn 2018

Dear Readers,

We present the new issue of bilig to you. We make available nine valuable articles to you in this new issue, as well. These articles are striking studies particularly with their characteristics addressing different aspects and dimensions of cultural interaction.

Turks are the nation that have been in constant interaction with various societies and cultures throughout history. Turkish nation also has a cultural diversity, since they are scattered across different geographies and have different historical experiences. Turks living in Siberia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Anatolia, the Balkans and the Middle East not just share common language, history and culture but also enrich to the richness of the great Turkish civilization via their unique cultural diversities.

The article by Dalim Cigdem Unal based on the 696 experience reports written by the students who come to Turkey from 56 different universities in Germany and in Austria via Erasmus exchange program is a striking example in terms of seeing the results of the contacts with the Turks with foreign cultures in modern times.

The article by Cemil Kutluturk is a study that revealed the role played by Muslim Turkish administrators in the field of development of Indian language and literature ten centuries ago. This article examines the contributions of Muslims to Indian language and literature by studying first Hindi works written in the field of Sufîsm

Münire Kevser Baş's study deals with how epic and old literary sources influence the new work in this field. The transition and interaction between the periods in the same culture is important regarding understanding the cultural continuity.

The collaborative study by Najimudinov to, Maksüdünov, Ozden, Bağırza and the Tazhibayev is a comparative study based on a survey applied to students who study business at Kyrgyz - Turkish Manas University, Haliç University, Azerbaijan State University of Economics and Akhmet Yassawi University. This study aims to reveal attitudes of Business students as future entrepreneurs and managers toward business ethics in Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, the four-founding member of the Turkish Council.

Besides these articles which we mentioned briefly, the article which focuses on Orhan Pamuk's White Castle novel and shows how a Turkish author adopts the legacy of European Orientalist writing; the study which compares the policies of Turkey and Iran in the Syrian crisis in the context of the Game Theoretical Analysis; the analysis focusing on the social and political reasons of the July 15 coup are the up to date works that address current issues.

I wish you all an enjoyable reading with our new issue with the hope that our new issue will contribute to the field/further studies and future research.

Prof. Dr. Fırat PURTAŞ

Editor in Chief