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SULTAN DUZGUN IS ONE OF THE FOUR SONS OF HAJJI KUREYSH,WHO IS ALSO KNOWN AS HAYDAR,AND THE DAUGHTER OF ABDAL MUSA.HIS BROTHERS ARE ZELI,CELIL AND ASKHAR.FOLLOWING THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF HIS MOTHER AT A YOUNG AGE,SULTAN DUZGUN,WHOSE REAL NAME IS ISMAIL,MARRIES WITH A YOUNG WOMEN.TWO OF DUZGUN’S BROTHERS DIED WHILE THEY WERE CHILDREN.AN OLD SAYING GOES THAT THEY WERE BURIED UNDER A MULBERRY TREE AND WHEREABOUTS OF THEIR TOMBS ARE NOT KNOWN.WHILE HAJJI KUREYSH WAS THINKING ABOUT HOW TO FEED A LARGE HERD OF GOAT IN A VERY HARD WINTER,HIS SON,SULTAN DUZGUN TELLS HIS FATHER “I CAN TAKE THE HERD TO THE MOUNTAIN AND FEED THEM THERE,BUT I COULD STAY THERE FOR A LONG TIME .DO NOT FOLLOW ME.”HE THEN TAKES HIS WIFE AND SON WITH HIM AS HE SET OUT TOWARDS MOUNTAIN.AFTER A LONG TIME HAS PASSED,HAJJI KUREYSH STARTS WONDERING AND SENDS ONE OF HIS FOLLOWERS BEHIND SULTAN DUZGUN UPON THE INSISTENCE OF HIS WIFE WHO SAYS, “HOW ON EARTH YOU GAVE THE WHOLE HERD TO THAT MOTHERLESS SON.WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED,THERE IS NO NEWS FROM HIM “.THE FOLLOWER GOES AND SEES THAT SULTAN DUZGUN HAS COVERED THE MOUTH OF A CAVE WITH SNOW AND ENLINENING THE GRASS AND LEAVES BEHIND THE SNOW.HE WAS FEEDING GOATS WITH THOSE REGREENED LEAVES.HE TELLS TO HAJJI JUREYSH IN ZAZAKI DILECT, “ISMAIL IŞKE DUZGINO,DUZGINO(ISMAIL’S JOB GOES WELL).”IT IS THEN SURPRISED WITH WHAT HE HAS HEARD,HAJJI KUREYSH DECIDES TO GO BEHIND HIS SON.AS HE APPROACHED TO THE HERD,ONE OF THE GOATS BECOMES ANXIOUS.THEN DUZGUN TURNS TO THE GOAT AND TELLS IT, “WHAT HAPPENED?DID YOU SEE MY FATHER?”THEN HE SEES HIS FATHER AND CRIES TO HIM , “WHY YOU COME HERE?I TOLD YOU DO NOT DO SO,” AND STARTS ESCAPING TOWARDS THE PEAK OF THE MOUNTAIN.HE FOLLOWED BY THE HERD.THEN HIS FATHER SAYS: “WHY ARE YIU TAKING THE HERD WIYH YOU?”DUZGUN,UPON HIS FATHERS WORDS,TELLS THE HERD NOT TO FOLLOW HIM IF THEY ARE NOT CHAMOIS AND A GROUP OF GOATS STOPS FOLLOWINHIM.AS HIS FATHERS ATTEMPTS TO COME TOWARDS HIM,DUZGUN THEN ENTERS INTO A BIG ROCK AND BECOMES INVISIBLE.HAJJI KUREYSH THEB TAKES HIS GRANDSON AND TURNS BACK TO VILLAGE.HE HOLDS A CEM RITUAL IN A BID TO CALL ON HIS SON.THEAN AT THE TIME DUZGUNAPPEARS AMONG THE CONGREGATION,TEKES HIS WIFE AND ATTEMPTS TO RETURN TO THE ROCK.ELDERS THEN TRY TO CATCH DUZGUN BUT DESPITE ALL THEIR EFFORTS THEY FAIL.AN ELDER FROM BABA MANSUR LINEAGE TELLS HAJJI KUREYSH FOLLOW HIS SON THROUGH AIR.DUZGUN AND HIS WIFE AGAIN BECOME MYSTERY BY GOING WITHIN THAT ROCK. SINCE THEIR SON GROW UP CRYING EVERYTIME,HE WAS GIVEN THE NAME GAZI,WHICH IS A FORM OF WORD “GAZE” THAT WHICH MEANS THE ONE WHO IS CRYING.WHEN GAZI GROW UP AND BECOME TEENAGE.HE ASKS HIS GRANDFATHER “WHICH OF YOUR LINEAGES YOU WILL GIVE UNDER MY ORDER?”AND HIS GRANDFATHER REPLIES, “YOUR FATHER ENTERED INTO THE ROCK WHILE HE IS ALIVE,GO TO HIM,IT SHOULD BE HIM NOT ME TO GIVE YOU SUCH AN AUTHORITY.”GAZI BECOMES SAD AND GOES TO THE ROCK WHERE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER WAS IN.SON GAZI, ALSO ENTERS INTO THE ROCK BUT WHEN HIS MOTHER SEES HIM TELLS, ” I WON’T LET MY SON GO TO THE OUTER WORLD.”HOWEVER DUZGUN REFUSES HIS WIFE’S DESIRE AND GIVES A GREEN ROBE TO HIS SON.FOLLOWINGLY,THOSE WHO SEE GAZI IN HIS ROBE,CALLS HIM “DERVISH GAZO BEDEBE KESK,”THAT WHICH DESCRIBE HIM HAVING GREEN BODY.HIS LINEAGE WAS THEN CALLED GAZIS.


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