Translation

Hungarian Turan Association, İmam Abdullatif Efendi And A Hungarian Pamphlet On The Armenian Question

Number: 41 July 28, 2020
  • Melek Çolak *
EN TR

Hungarian Turan Association, İmam Abdullatif Efendi And A Hungarian Pamphlet On The Armenian Question

Abstract

Pan-Turanism, which gained intellectual relevance due to Turcology research and emerged for the first time in Hungary as an alternative movement against the Pan-Slavism and Pan-Germanism movements, became a basis for the Hungarians to communicate effectively with the Turkish world from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. In 1910, the Hungarian Turanists founded the Turan Association (Magyar Turani Társaság) and began publishing a journal titled Turán. This intellectual movement served as a cultural bridge that brought the two communities closer on the path from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey. Hungarian Turanists supported the war of liberation against imperialism in Anatolia. They founded the Turan News Agency and carried out intensive propaganda regarding the rightfulness of the Turkish National Struggle. During and after the National Struggle period, during which discussions were conducted about migrations taking place during the First World War and the alleged intentional victimization of Armenians during these migrations, the Turan Association stood against these claims and tried to prove that these were part of a campaign of slander against Turkey. İmam Abdüllatif Efendi, who was sent to Hungary by the Ottoman Government in 1910 at the request of the Hungarian Government in order to deal with the religious affairs of the Muslims there due to the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, also actively took part in the activities of the Turan Association. He became the voice of Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk) and the Turks in Hungary during the National Struggle period. He conducted an effective press campaign to explain the unfair disposition of the European public towards the Armenian Question. In 1923, a Hungarian pamphlet containing evidence was published by the Abdüllatif Publishing House in Budapest to disprove the British slander campaign. On the basis of this pamphlet with the original title of “Bizonyitékok az Angol Rágalmak Cáfolatához” (“Evidence on Disproving the British Slander”) that has not yet been translated to Turkish, and by making use of the Turán journal and Hungarian archival documents, the current study will discuss the importance of this pamphlet within the context of the activities of İmam Abdüllatif Efendi related to the Turan Association and within the framework of Turkish-Hungarian relationships.

Keywords

References

  1. MOL (Magyar Országos Levéltár): Hungarian National Archive, K 28, 54. Tétel, 14. Csomó, Budapest/HUNGARY
  2. Országgyűlés Könyvtára: Library of the Hungarian Parliament
  3. Bizonyítékok az angol rágalmak cáfolatához, Mr. Yowell rágalmainak okai és céljai, Eredeti franciából az angorai sajtó iroda meghagyásábol készült fordítás 1338-(1922). Kiadó: Abdul Latif, Budapest 1923.
  4. Çolak, Melek. “Macaristan’da Türk Dünyasına İlgi, Tarihi Arka Plan ve Avrasya Gerçeği.” In Uluslararası Sosyal bilimler Kongresi: Türkistan Forumu III, Küreselleşme sürecinde Türk Dünyasının Geleceği Bildiri Kitabı. (Türkistan/Kazakistan, Nisan 2017): 147-156.
  5. Çolak, Melek. “Macar Türkolog Vámbéry’nin Türkistan Seyahatinde ‘Büyük Oyun’un’ İzleri-Orijinal Fotoğraflarla Birlikte.” Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 45 (Nisan 2019): 13-27.
  6. Çolak, Melek. “Macar Turancıları ve Atatürk (Macar Kaynaklarına Göre).” Türk Yurdu 31, Sayı: 290 (Ekim 2011): 94-101.
  7. Çolak, Melek. “Macaristan’da Müslümanlık ve İmam Abdüllatif Efendi (1909-1946).” In 38. Uluslararası Asya ve Kuzey Afrika Çalışmaları Kongresi (ICANAS) Bildiriler III (Ankara 2012): 1021-1049.
  8. Demirkan, Tarık. Macar Turancıları. İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, Haziran 2000.

Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Political Science

Journal Section

Translation

Authors

Melek Çolak * This is me
0000-0001-6037-1039
Türkiye

Publication Date

July 28, 2020

Submission Date

June 23, 2020

Acceptance Date

June 25, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 2020 Number: 41

APA
Çolak, M. (2020). Hungarian Turan Association, İmam Abdullatif Efendi And A Hungarian Pamphlet On The Armenian Question (C. F. E. S. Avim, Trans.). Review of Armenian Studies, 41, 107-124. https://izlik.org/JA52SK93AP
AMA
1.Çolak M. Hungarian Turan Association, İmam Abdullatif Efendi And A Hungarian Pamphlet On The Armenian Question. RAS. 2020;(41):107-124. https://izlik.org/JA52SK93AP
Chicago
Çolak, Melek. 2020. “Hungarian Turan Association, İmam Abdullatif Efendi And A Hungarian Pamphlet On The Armenian Question”. Translated by Center For Eurasian Studies Avim. Review of Armenian Studies, nos. 41 (July): 107-24. https://izlik.org/JA52SK93AP.
EndNote
Çolak M (July 1, 2020) Hungarian Turan Association, İmam Abdullatif Efendi And A Hungarian Pamphlet On The Armenian Question. Review of Armenian Studies 41 107–124.
IEEE
[1]M. Çolak, “Hungarian Turan Association, İmam Abdullatif Efendi And A Hungarian Pamphlet On The Armenian Question”, RAS, no. 41, pp. 107–124, July 2020, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA52SK93AP
ISNAD
Çolak, Melek. “Hungarian Turan Association, İmam Abdullatif Efendi And A Hungarian Pamphlet On The Armenian Question”. Review of Armenian Studies. Trans. Center For Eurasian Studies Avim. 41 (July 1, 2020): 107-124. https://izlik.org/JA52SK93AP.
JAMA
1.Çolak M. Hungarian Turan Association, İmam Abdullatif Efendi And A Hungarian Pamphlet On The Armenian Question. RAS. 2020;:107–124.
MLA
Çolak, Melek. “Hungarian Turan Association, İmam Abdullatif Efendi And A Hungarian Pamphlet On The Armenian Question”. Review of Armenian Studies, translated by Center For Eurasian Studies Avim, no. 41, July 2020, pp. 107-24, https://izlik.org/JA52SK93AP.
Vancouver
1.Melek Çolak. Hungarian Turan Association, İmam Abdullatif Efendi And A Hungarian Pamphlet On The Armenian Question. RAS [Internet]. 2020 Jul. 1;(41):107-24. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA52SK93AP