OSMANLI’DAN CUMHURİYET’E MİLLİ İKTİSAT İDEOLOJİSİ VE MİTHAT ŞAKİR ALTAN
NATIONAL ECONOMIC IDEOLOGY FROM THE OTTOMAN TO THE REPUBLIC AND MİTHAT ŞAKİR ALTAN

Summary/Abstract: In the history of Turkish economics, the idea of national economy emerged for the first time in the Second Constitutional Period. This idea, which started to be implemented as a state policy in the following process, peaked with the start of the First World War. In this respect, importance was given to the establishment of Turkish-Muslim capitalists, the establishment of national banks and companies with domestic capital, and the encouragement of domestic production and entrepreneurs. With the end of the Ottoman Empire, intellectuals and national institutions defending the national economy ideology played an important role in ensuring the economic independence of the new Turkish Republic this time. In this study, the views of Mithat Şakir Altan, who witnessed the last periods of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of a new Turkish state, received his education in Ottoman Konya, and served the Republic of Turkey as a teacher, writer, lawyer, president of the community center and parliamentarian, on national economy were examined. Especially since the First World War, the understanding of national economy that he put forward was evaluated within the framework of the views of the Ottoman intellectuals of the period. It has been determined that the developments in the Ottoman Empire and in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries had an important place in the formation of his personality and ideas. Because the time he was born; Although it was the most turbulent time of the Ottoman Empire, it coincided with a very rich period in terms of intellectual ideologies. During the First World War, during the implementation of the national economy policy in the Ottoman Empire, he wrote articles supporting this policy, mostly in the column "Around Turkishness" in the newspaper Türk Sözü in Konya. With the end of the Ottoman Empire, M. Şakir came into prominence in Konya among those who carried the idea of national economy in the Republic.

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