Atatürk
revolutions have been a subject of arguement in the life of the Turkish thought
from 1960s. In these arguements, concentrating on the claim that the
revolutions were directed to the appearance, and were not enough to transform
an eastern society; Niyazi Berkes and Şerif Mardin, put forward a different
perpective. Berkes and Mardin, see the process as a problem of changingthe
mentality. In this context while Şerif Mardin evaluates the revolutions as an
endavour of passing into a Western society based on individual and ration from
a traditional Eastern community; Berkes evaluates them as an act directed to
turn the the society’s orbit from the Eastern way to the Western. In this
article, it is argued why Mardin and Berkes see Ataturk’s revolutions as an
endavour of changing mentality and it is emphasized the otherness of this
approachment in the Turkish thought for understanding the revolutionary
process.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | October 22, 2019 |
Submission Date | September 9, 2019 |
Acceptance Date | October 21, 2019 |
Published in Issue | Year 2019 |