TÜRK-ALMAN İLİŞKİLERİNDE TÜRK İMAJINI MEYDANA GETİREN OLGULAR VE ESERLERE YANSIMASI
THE FACTS AND WORKS THAT CREATE THE TURKISH IMAGE IN TURKISH-GERMAN RELATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The Turkish-German relations go back to the 11th century and have undergone changes throughout the history until now. While the reason of these changes is religious motifs on the one hand; on the other hand, self-interests come to the fore. Both reasons have influenced and have changed the lives of the two nations. These changes are also reflected in the same way in the literary works of two nations. In the first part of this study, the historical development of Turkish-German relations will be analyzed and how the relations have affceted the two countries’ cultural life in a theoretical way are going to be put forward. Aforementioned relations are specifically going to be examined in terms of the approaches of post-stagnation period of Ottoman Empire. These relations are going to be analyzed setting out from Gerdes’ “Turks in Berlin”. In this respect, examples that relate to the military, economic, and political interactions’ impact on the literatures of the two cultures will be provided and the reflections of these interactions to the present times will be examined. In the end, we will see how the negative image of Turkish people, which is caused by the churches’ sermons, has changed with Diez’ work and has created an effect on especially German writers such as Lessing’s and Goethe’s Works. In the final part, how historical events directly affect literature is going to be asserted. In addition; this study is going to investigate how contemporary relations fluctuate and how these fluctuations are reflected in contemporary literature.

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