In study of world epic, we see the stories on the battle of father and son's. In some of them father kills his son and in another the son kills his father but some have relies on the taste of reader and tries to show their champion to be alive. The similarities in these stories ask this question that if these contents have single origin or each story is vernacular for his country. This article studies the stories of "Rostam and Sohrab" and "Koroglou and Kordouglu", the Turkish epic. Multiple similarities in these stories inspire us that the source of Korouglu and Korluglu is Firdowsi's Shahnameh. The similarity of Plot, motifs , characters , and other properties highlight this fact.

Keywords: Battle, father, son, Rostam, Sohrab, Korouglu, Kordouglu

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