{"id":28672,"date":"2010-12-09T22:34:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T20:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=28672"},"modified":"2024-09-02T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T09:15:07","slug":"zeybek-harmandali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/12\/09\/zeybek-harmandali\/","title":{"rendered":"Zeybek &#8220;Harmandal\u0131&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zeybek (Harmandal\u0131) dance is part of the Turkish Culture. This dance is the symbol of courage and honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/1880-Turkish-irregular-soldiers-named-Zeybeks.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-824063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/1880-Turkish-irregular-soldiers-named-Zeybeks.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/1880-Turkish-irregular-soldiers-named-Zeybeks-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zeybek\u2019s were people living in Asia Minor. The majority of them came from Y\u00f6r\u00fck and T\u00fcrkmen villages. Before the establishment of the Republic of&nbsp; Turkey, large concentrations of Zeybek\u2019s could be found in western Anatolia particularly in \u0130zmir, Burdur, Afyon, K\u00fctahya, U\u015fak, Denizli, Ayd\u0131n, Isparta, Manisa, Mugla, Antalya, and the Bal\u0131kesir area. Zeybeks were mountain warriors of &nbsp;Western Anatolia during the 13th &#8211; 19th centuries. Zeybeks generally had Turkmen and Y\u00f6r\u00fck origins. They acted as protectors of village people against landlords, bandits and tax collectors. A leader of a Zeybek gang was called &#8220;EFE&#8221; and his soldiers were known as &#8220;K\u0131zan&#8221;. &#8220;K\u0131zan&#8221; was generally used for untrained Zeybeks. There was generally a tribe democracy in group. Decisions was taken in a democratic way, after the decision was taken &#8220;EFE&#8221; has an uncontroversial authority. They followed definite rituals for all actions; for example, the promotion of a &#8220;k\u0131zan&#8221; to zeybek was very similar to Ahi rituals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"441\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/zeybek.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/zeybek.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/zeybek-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zeybeks had a special dance in which performers simulated hawks. Romantic songs about their bravery are still popular in Turkish folk music. The Yatagan sword was their primary weapon, but most of them carried firearms as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zeybek (Harmandal\u0131) dance is part of the Turkish Culture. This dance is the symbol of courage and honour. Zeybek\u2019s were people living in Asia Minor. The majority of them came from Y\u00f6r\u00fck and T\u00fcrkmen villages. Before the establishment of the Republic of&nbsp; Turkey, large concentrations of Zeybek\u2019s could be found in western Anatolia particularly in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":775170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3974],"tags":[3975],"class_list":["post-28672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serap-korkmaz-erdogdu","tag-turkish-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}