Turkish Studies International Periodical For The Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 10/4 Winter 2015, p. 707-716 DOI Number: http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.7947 ISSN: 1308-2140, ANKARA-TURKEY CULTURAL POLITICS AND POŞA’S SAMPLING KARS * Kürşat ÖNCÜL ** STRUCTURED ABSTRACT Social and political conditions are two of the most important factors determining the country’s policies. The policies naturally depending on domestic elements compel us to do some regulations as a result of various pressure groups. The pressure of changing attitude towards the country’s policies by both home politics and external pressure groups can be far from what the people in the country and the administration want. The Turkish Republic policy is not related with being a Turk as claimed in certain literatures but in the framework of being a nationality. The staff grown up in the culture of empire tried to raise the consciousness of being a Turk or a citizen of Turkey as a prior identity without othering the different masses who preferred to live in the newly-founded Turkish Republic even though most of the managerial staff have been anticipated to have the expression of Committee of Union and Progress until the years 2000s. However, it is impossible to find detailed information about the history, cultural acceptance and the identity of the “Poshas”, a fairly small group called “Gypsy” in general. The political attitude changes held recently have brought about a displeasure environment for the “Poshas”, who try to be in a peaceful and co-operative manner towards the rest of the people in the country. The decline in the cultural unity and their personal unrest manners on the survey comes with the expressions and statements and annihilates the feeling of unity of decades in small towns. The studies on individual and identity will actually cause the annihilation of social harmony by gasping the rights of individuals socially. The process will give opportunity to boost the different separatists and political expressions in the following years. The historical, sociological and cultural position of Turkey has showed that there are different factors to be analyzed before the performance of these applications and statements. If the studies related to cultural and folkloric policies aren’t performed for the benefit of country rather than political acceptations because of the reasons above, it is possible to come across with unrest among the citizens as well as various conflicts, so all of those cause social disintegration. The duration from first census after the * Bu makale Crosscheck sistemi tarafından taranmış ve bu sistem sonuçlarına göre orijinal bir makale olduğu tespit edilmiştir. ** Doç. Dr. Kafkas Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fak. Türk Halk Bilimi, El-mek: onculkursat@yahoo.com