Every vision of the future necessicates a consideration of the past - so much so that historical writing about social and national matters are paradoxically deemed important in terms of their reinterpretation of the past by taking the future into account. The famous metaphor “a future rooted in the past” of Yahya Kemal, in this respect, is remarkable. Taking thoughts of İsmet Özel expressed under “İstiklal Marşı Derneği” as a starting point, a continiuous intellectual line is traced back through Nurettin Topçu to Mehmet Akif Ersoy in this work. While Mehmet Akif uses the metaphor “single-fanged monster” for his criticism of the modern world, this criticism, within the frame of “world system” and context of global pressures against the nation states, evolves into a more systematic anti-imperialist notion in the eyes of Nurettin Topçu and İsmet Özel. Attributed to “the heroic army” and being a source of motivation for the ultimate victory achieved in the Turkish War of Independence, the İstiklal Marşı is thought to be encapsulating intellectual seeds that would challengeange the global attacks the Turkish nation have gone through lately. For the social cohesion of the Turkish nation, the İstiklal Marşı is proposed to be reconsidered as the mainstay or “comprise document.”
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Publication Date | December 30, 2018 |
Submission Date | February 19, 2018 |
Acceptance Date | October 9, 2018 |
Published in Issue | Year 2018 Volume: 10 Issue: 26 |
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