@article{2016,title={TURKIC TRADITION AND PATH OF WISDOM CODED WITH SYMBOLS IN THE IRK BITIG},abstractNode={The Irk Bitig, a wisdom book, tries to narrate its message about Turkic tradition and universal virtues through each of its “ırk” consisted of symbolic and artistic stories to its readers. The theory, that “the Irk Bitig” is a fortune book which probably tries to allow its readers with higher education level to comprehend its teaching in an implicit form, is rather difficult to prove if main starting point is content of the book. It is necessary that “the Irk Bitig” should be re-evaluated in terms of its type; and interdisciplinary studies are required to be conducted on it on the basis of language, sociology and ethnology. Messages about Turkic tradition and universal virtues revealed through this study within the scope of the 5th, 9th, 13th, 17th, 26th, 52nd, 16th, 22nd, 24th, 27th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 35th, 58th, 46th, 49th, 54th and 57th “ırks”, suggest that it would be mistaken if the book is only considered within the scope of the faiths such as Buddhism or Manichaeism. Conclusively, subjective readings of “the Irk Bitig” would allow to acquire great deal of information on known culture and tradition of Turks rich in terms of examples and explanations; and to reveal some traces of their forgotten ancient culture.},author={Turgay SEBZECİOĞLU},year={2016},journal={The Journal of Social Sciences}}