Turkish folklore

Jinn (Arabic: جِنّ‎), also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies, are supernatural beings in pre-Islamic Arabian religion and Islam. Like humans, they are accountable for their deeds and can be either believers (''Mu'minun) or unbelievers (kuffar''), depending on whether they accept God's guidance.

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thumb|right|A traditional Kyrgyz Epic of Manas|manaschi performing part of the epic poem (dastan) at a yurt camp in [[Karakol]] Dastan () is an ornate form of oral history, an epic, from Central Asia, Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan.

Turkish shadow theatre

welcome greeting ceremony in some Slavic, Nordic, Baltic, Balkan and Middle Eastern cultures in which guests are presented with a loaf of bread and salt

A parī or peri is a supernatural entity originating from Persian tales and distributed into wider Asian folklore. The parīs are often described as winged creatures of immense beauty who are structured in societies similar to that of humans. Unlike jinn, the parīs usually feature in tales involving supernatural elements.

thumb|Ottoman miniature of a Meddah performing at a [[coffeehouse]]

The kallikantzaros () is a malevolent creature in modern Greek folklore.

thumb|A molybdomancy kit includes a set of shaped lead ingots, to be melted over a candle flame in a spoon. thumb|A piece of molten lead after immersion in cold water

Turkish military officer (1857–1955)

thumb|right|Karaghiozis (toy shadow puppet)

folk dances of Turkey and Turks elsewhere

Archura (Old Turkic: 𐰀𐰺𐰲𐰆𐰺𐰀; ) is a shapeshifting woodland spirit in Turkic mythology who protects wild animals and forests.

thumb | right | Keloglan figure and books at Kartal Fairy Tale Museum. Keloğlan (Turkish: 'bald boy') is a fictional character that appears in Turkic and Altai mythology, fairy tales and similar folkloric narratives.

thumb|Pomegranate (in Turkish: Nar) thematic table in Nardugan

overview of the folklore of the Turkish people

"Lebdeğmez atışma" or "Dudak değmez aşık atışması" in Turkey, whose literal meaning in Turkish is "two troubadours throwing verses at each other where lips do not touch each other", is the traditional and still practiced event of oratory match, a form of instantaneously improvised poetry sang by opposing Ashiks taking turns for artfully criticising each other with one verse at a time, is done by each first placing a pin between their upper and lower lips so that the improvised song, usually accompanied by a Saz (played by the ashik himself), consists only of labial lipograms i.e. without words

right|thumb|300x300px|Authorities and a journalist from the United States posing with the bodies of Hekimoğlu and friend Alan Osman after their death in a shootout with arresting officers. Hekimoğlu's body is on the right. Hekimoğlu İbrahim (died 26 April 1913), known by his epithet Hekimoğlu ("son of a physician" in Turkish), was a Turkish outlaw and a folk hero. He was born in Fatsa, Ordu, Ottoman Empire (today's Blacksea region in Turkey)