Kültür ve Düşünce Adamı Olarak Falih Rıfkı Atay
Falih Rıfkı Atay as Man of Culture and Thought

Summary/Abstract: Falih Rıfkı Atay, a writer and a journalist who had an elite position among organic intellectuals close to government during transition process from constitutional monarchy to republic, was embraced by every ruler as Talat Pasha, Cemal Pasha, Atatürk and İnönü. He tried to explain ideological and cultural saying of every period with that identity. He was always a man of government except when he remained independent as a writer during that transition process and Mütakere? period when he supported openly Anatolia liberation movement in İstanbul. Although using a populist saying, Atay determined various effects that made society mystic and miserable and made his duty and mission fighting with them. He believed illiteracy was the first reason that made Ottoman/Turkish society backwards among many. And he emphasized the importance of using a elegant language, a language of people and the function of secularism principle and Latin alphabet in terms of Turkish society in his works. The field that made him productive and fertile for us is works about his journeys around world.

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