Goat territories: territorializing landscapes with yörük nomads

According to the nomads, the course of life is as follows: “life ends the road never ends”. This is the simplest expression of the nomad’s sense of immortality. The nomad therefore also does not take property for the dead and does not create cemeteries. We bury them where they gives their lifes to the earth. When you look at life in this way, death is a continuation of migration, is just another form of it. (1) 

This is how the narrative and the stories appears around migration and territorializes the future and past.

(1)Özkan Demir and Nur Bakar, ‘Silifke Yörüklerinde Doğum, Evlenme ve Ölüm Gelenekleri Üzerine Bir Araştırma’, Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 1, no. 17843 (10 June 2014): 127, https://doi.org/10.21563/sutad.187113.