SUMMARY
Rapid depopulation of rural areas caused overpopulation in urban areas. This led to cultural changes and made it inevitably necessary to define the new folk and folklore by the folklorists. The fact that Alan Dundes defines the public as "any group of people whatsoever who share at least one common factor" has enabled the folklorists to examine the cultural products that have emerged in cities as a result of the developments and changes in regard to migration and urbanization.Latife Tekin, one of the prominent authors in Turkish literature after 1980, published her second book called Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills in 1984. The book is a story of a slum. The compliance processes of the slum dwellers and the struggle with such issues as the wind, unemployment, and poverty have been narrated through the cultural products. Based on Alan Dundes' perspective from the articles called 'Who are the folk?' and 'What is folklore?', the novel has adopted the point of view that "each group has its own folklore," and some distinctive traditions that squatters call their own have been determined in the novel. The emergence of the traditions due to the fact that the slum dwellers cannot transform into urbanites and yet cannot remain provincial either establishes the primary topic of the present article.Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetKöyden kente göçlerin hizla artmasi köy nüfusunu azaltirken kent nüfusunu arttirmistir. Bu durum kültürel degisimlere sebep olmus ve halk bilimciler açisindan yeni bir halk ve folklor tanimlamasini gerekli kilmistir. Alan Dundes’in halki “en az bir ortak faktörü paylasan grup” olarak tanimlamasi göç ve sehirlesme eksenindeki gelismeler ve degisimler sonucunda sehirlerde ortaya çikan kültürel ürünleri halk bilimciler açisindan incelenebilir kilmistir.1980 sonrasi Türk edebiyatinin öne çikan isimlerinden Latife Tekin, ikinci kitabi olan “Berci Kristin Çöp Masallari” romanini 1984 senesinde yayimlamistir. Kitapta bir gecekondu mahallesinin hikâyesi anlatilmistir. Gecekondu sakinlerinin sehre uyum süreçleri ve rüzgâr, issizlik, yoksulluk gibi sorunlarla mücadeleleri kültürel ürünler üstünden verilmistir. Romana Alan Dundes’in “Halk kimdir?” ve “Folklor nedir?” makalesindeki görüslerinden de yola çikilarak “her toplulugun kendi folkloru vardir.” bakis açisiyla bakilmis, romanda konducularin kendilerine ait olduklarini kabul ettikleri âdetler tespit edilmistir. Gecekondu sakinlerinin kentli olamayisi bununla birlikte köylü de kalamayislarinin dogurdugu bu âdetler makalenin ana konusunu olusturmustur