Tank Kültürünün Türkiye’de Tezahürü (1932-1945)
Appearance of Tank Culture in Türkiye (1932-1945)

Summary/Abstract: The concepts of peace and security, which are the main products of the ontology of war, made it possible to include the clause of fighting for peace in the manuals of the armed forces. The transformation of the army institution into a large technical and commercial market enabled the existing perception to be grounded by feeding it in the 20th century. The Second World War, which built the order of military technical transformation, started the school of armored units within the land forces. The Turkish Armed Forces, which has come of age in land wars, has tried to respond to the militarist and political stances of its contemporary states by closely following the fashion of armored troops in new land wars. In the study, Turkey's first organizational process in the field of armored troops before and during the Second World War was discussed; The conferences, memoirs and articles written by the tank officers of the period were examined; It has been tried to obtain information from the first source by giving place to the columns and personnel interviews in the press organs. While examining the maneuvers carried out, the institutions opened for tank training, the training curriculum and the social lives of the tanker candidates; Statements by Lieutenant Colonel Max Braun, a foreign military expert and German spy, about Turkish tanking were also taken into account. The Kırıkkale MKE 1943 model, the first domestic tank project designed by Turkey's first metallurgical engineer Selahattin Şanbaşoğlu and his team, was mentioned and the effects of this new class on the military and social base were tried to be explained.

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