This article is about Gök-Börü Magazine which was published as 13 issues between 5th October 1942 and 23rd May 1943 by Reha Oğuz Türkkan during the Second World War. During its publishment period the most important point was that it had an attempt to create a perception of nationalism based on racism in Turkey. In this sense as in the Bozkurt and Ergenekon the pioneer of the magazine, it attempted to tell that Turkish are unique and higher with the loop of “Turkish Race Is Higher Than Every Race”. Furthermore, they uttered that against the Western imperialism, racism was the only way to save the Turkish people from material and moral collapse they were in. There were articles about history, literature, sociology, economy and racism in the Gök-Börü Magazine. Turkish science and idea men of this period Bülent Ecevit and Nuri Demirağ who were going to take part in the Turkish political life in the future found place in the magazine in which predominantly Türkan’s writings took part in this work we are going to handle the Börü Magazine with its shape and content. From the point of these writings of the magazine we are going to determine the social atmosphere of the period and how psychological and political substructure were reflected during the Second World War. Apart from the idea of racism in Gök-Börü, we are going to attract the attention to the interest of the Turkish people living except from Turkey. In the light of this information we are going to determine that during the World War II Turkish people had its own unique and superior qualifications among society and also there was an interest to the Turkish people who were abroad Turkey.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Publication Date | June 22, 2019 |
Submission Date | February 13, 2019 |
Acceptance Date | March 18, 2019 |
Published in Issue | Year 2019 |
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