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The Uysal–Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative is a searchable archive of oral
Turkish literature Turkish literature ( tr, Türk edebiyatı) comprises oral compositions and written texts in Turkic languages. The Ottoman and Azerbaijani forms of Turkish, which forms the basis of much of the written corpus, were highly influenced by Persian a ...
. The archive is housed in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library of
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in Lubbock, Texas, United States. It includes links to numerous audio recordings in
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format and images. There are also some academic articles in English.


History

Professor Walker of the English department at Texas Tech University visited
Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ...
in 1961–62 with his wife Barbara, under the terms of a
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. While there, he met Ahmet Edip Uysal, Professor of English at Ankara University. Shortly thereafter, they began working together towards an archive. The project culminated in the Uysal–Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative. After a decade of fieldwork in many villages, the original founders began focusing on organization and permanent storage of their information. This led them to eventually donate their holdings to
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in 1980.Uysal-Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative
entry at
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