Abstract
The way the state is perceived in Turkish politics has always been an important element of ideological polarization. Especially in nationalist ideology and at the same time in conservatism, there is a positive view of the state to the extent of attributing sanctity to it, which has permeated from the past to the present. On the other hand, in Turkish socialism and Marxist theory, the state is seen as a source and apparatus of oppression due to the fact that the state is a historicity that must be overcome through struggle. This polarization was also reflected in Turkish literature and Kemal Tahir's novel Devlet Ana (Mother State) was an important break at this point. Kemal Tahir, who had positioned himself within Turkish socialism, processed a historical fiction in his novel in a way to affirm the Ottoman heritage and did so within an allegorical structure. In this attempt, which can be considered as an attempt to reconcile the Turkish left with the history of Turkey, the idea that there was no feudalism and therefore no class structure in the Ottoman Empire, and that instead the understanding of a benevolent state was essential, as an extension of the Asian Type Mode of Production (ATÜT) approach, was processed. The author's effort, which includes the idea that the socialist struggle should be carried out in accordance with Turkey's unique historical heritage and social structure without accepting the historical development, social form and thought system of the West as a necessity, is based on a positioning of the East-West conflict. This positioning, which is constructed with an allegorical narrative, corresponds to a fruitful example in terms of the discussion initiated by Fredric Jameson that the literature of the third world, which is fixed by its colonial past, will necessarily be allegorical. In this study, the view that allegorical narrative and the colonial past cannot be linked to each other with a relation of necessity in the literature defined as the third world is defended with the idea that allegorical narrative in the East is based on the ancient Turkish, Arabic, Persian and Indian literatures.