ŞERİF MARDİN ile NİYAZİ BERKES’İN ATATÜRK DEVRİMLERİNE BAKIŞLARINDA ZİHNİYET DEĞİŞİMİ MESELESİ
The Mentality Change Problem in the Perspective of Şerif Mardin And Niyazi Berkes Regarding the Atatürk Revolutions

Summary/Abstract: Atatürk revolutions have been a subject of arguement in the life of the Turkish thought from 1960s. In these arguements, concentrating on the claim that the revolutions were directed to the appearance, and were not enough to transform an eastern society; Niyazi Berkes and Şerif Mardin, put forward a different perpective. Berkes and Mardin, see the process as a problem of changingthe mentality. In this context while Şerif Mardin evaluates the revolutions as an endavour of passing into a Western society based on individual and ration from a traditional Eastern community; Berkes evaluates them as an act directed to turn the the society’s orbit from the Eastern way to the Western. In this article, it is argued why Mardin and Berkes see Ataturk’s revolutions as an endavour of changing mentality and it is emphasized the otherness of this approachment in the Turkish thought for understanding the revolutionary process.

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