GYULA NÉMETH’İN KÜÇÜK ASYA GEZİSİ İLE İLGİLİ MEKTUPLARI VE TÜRKOLOJİ AÇISINDAN ÖNEMİ
GYULA NÉMETH'S LETTERS ABOUT HIS ASIA MINOR TRIP AND THEIR IMPORTANCE IN TERMS OF TURCOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The distinguished figure of Hungarian Turcology and also the world famous Hungarian Turcologist Gyula Németh (1890-1976) is a scientist who contributed many works to the scientific world and created his own school of thought. Gyula Németh, who was interested in Turcology at an early age, learned Turkish with his own efforts and wanted to improve this knowledge. He first visited İstanbul in 1907 when he was just a high school student and then one year later, he came to Turkey again. In accordance with his plan this time, he travelled around İzmir and Aydın in order to find the opportunity to research and study in the lands of Asia Minor, far from Istanbul. There is little information about Gyula Németh's trip to Asia Minor other than the travel memoirs he wrote and published after returning to Hungary. But his personal letters found in the Hungarian Ethnographic Museum Archives and not published yet in Hungary or Turkey offer valuable data about this trip of Németh. The letters are also full of detailed information about for which purposes and how the trip was carried out. At the same, they reflect the political and cultural face of Anatolia in the 1908s and are important in terms of history and the science of Turks. The letters of a young person who would be a famous scientist in the future are valuable in terms of showing his personality, abilities he possessed and can be a good example for young scientists. In the current study, Németh's letters in the Ethnology Archive of the Hungarian Ethnography Museum are presented for the first time and their importance in terms of Turcology is evaluated.

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