GERÇEK İLE ÜTOPYA ARASINDA ŞEVKET SÜREYYA AYDEMİR
ŞEVKET SÜREYYA AYDEMİR IN TURKISH THOUGHT

Summary/Abstract: The modernization process of the Republic is such a long historical and social phenomenon that it can be interpreted in many different angles. All the alterations, evolutions, crashes, struggles, and revolutions reflected in the memories and the political inclinations of the intellectuals who witnessed this era.Among these intellectuals, Şevket Süreyya Aydemir wrote the history of the republic through the lives of the political leaders of the era. Şevket Süreyya Aydemir, having a place of great importance in the intellectual life of Turkey, is an intriguing profile with his intellectual career in TKP, Kadro Dergisi, and Yön Dergisi. Aydemir, on the other hand, witnessed all the early periods of the modernization process and expressed his testimony through biographies of both the important political leaders of the era and himself. This study, aims to scrutinize the evolution of the intellectual climate of Turkey through the alterations took place in the intellectual and political life of Aydemir as a biographical and autobiographical historian. This study also aims to discuss Aydemir’s proposed solutions, which vary ideologically from socialism to Kemalism, to the problems of Turkish society, and to find the true place of Aydemir within the Turkish intellectual climate. Şevket Süreyya Aydemir is a biographer, autobiographer and historian.

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