An article written by Ali Işık was published in a web page named "İz Literature" at March 14, 2002*. A tradion originated from early age civilizations of Anatolia is introduced in the article. Şivlilik tradition... This tradition was carried on until 40-50 years ago with its all details. Children were playing side-drums on streets before bara'ah night by virtue of the tradition. They were causing to groan playing side-drums and reeds with lambs in their hands all over the city. This tradition originated from Phrygians, one of the oldest civilizations of Anatolia according to Ali Işık. Well, Who maded side-drums prerequisite for Şivlilik tradition? We are interesting in the answer of this question strongly.
Residents of the neighbourhood in northern side of Larende Door of the old wall were making side-drums. Ali Işık describing our brothers and sisters lived in the neighbourhood emphasizes that they had a fair skin differing them from the other residents of Konya. Their red hairs and speckles on their faces were the other characterictics differing them from the others. Residents of the neighbourhood were speaking Turkish in a different way and they also had their own secret language. What was the other jobs of our side-drum maker friends? Sieve making, drum playing, blacksmithing were most known jobs of them. At the time, they were also Ramadan drummers.
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Side-drum makers had a Phrygian origin accorging to Ali Işık. Phrygians were governers of the west side of center Anatolia between 12-7 centuries bc. Do our side-drum makers could have any real connections with them? It's not easy to answer this question. Because only source about them is the article of Ali Işık. We don't know do they still live there or not. However we know one thing. The evidences in the article prove us that side-drum makers were a typical peripatetic society. It's understood that they settled in the neighbourhood under the effect of various conditions. However they had keeped their traditional jobs. It's sure that there is a peripatetic Gypsy society originated from the oldest civilizations of Anatolia in front of us.
Many peoples came to Anatolia in the history. Various Gypsy peoples lodged, settled and became a part of Anatolian culture in Anatolia as Gadjo peoples. Destination of long journey of Abdal Gypsies starting from east Turkestan through middle eastern steppes was Anatolia. A group of Indian Gypsies being accepted as the oldest ancestors of Roma Gypsies finalize their culture and language with the main lines in Anatolia. With limited information from the article we can easily say that side-drum makers of Konya were one the Gypsy peoples settled in Anatolia just like Abdals, Roma, Geygels and the others.
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Gypsy peoples coming from different geographies have had different physical appearances. They have married eachother in the centuries. Slowly, new groups have existed including physical appearances of different Gypsy peoples. It almost impossible to understand origin of individuals in neighbourhoods different Gypsy groups live together in for a long time. However they are descendants of peripatetic ancestors, they are Gypsies. There are many brothers and sisters among us in Anatolia having different physical appearances close to Indian, Asiatic or Slavic typology. There are also some individuals among us close to the typology Ali Işık described in the article. These kind of physical speacialities are especially common among Gypsy peoples related to Caucasian geography. But it's also possible to see individuals with these physical specialities among all Gypsy groups of Anatolia.
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What are side-drum makers doing today? Do they still live in the same neigbourhood? If they moved, where are they today? Where does Cultural heritage of thousand of years scattered today? I wish we could know. I wish the culture of side-drum makers could be saved in better conditions. I wish not to see traces of this people accidentally.
Situation of side drum makers shows the importance of saving cultural heritage of Gypsy people even underpopulated ones. All peoples being lost, all languages being lost remove thousand of years' traces. Dramatical silence of side-drum makers of Konya shows us importance of keeping our cultures, our languages and even our dialects with in our languages. Standoff of being forgotten gives us the creeps fatal. Being remembered warms us inside.
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Have a nice week.
*Ali Işık; Konya'da Namaz ve Şivlilik Adetleri; http://www.izedebiyat.com/yazi.asp?id=4309
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