Abstract:

National Economy is the name given to the economic policies implemented between the years of 1913-1918, when the Union and Progress was the strongest. However, National Economy has exceeded this time interval and inspired the economic understanding of the Republican period. As a result of the privileged treatment of people close to the Committee of Union and Progress while the national economic policies were being implemented, a wealthy group emerged from the war environment. This group is called the war profiteer. They came from the people or the public officials who used the power of the state. The war profiteers attracted the attention of literature as a newly emerging group at that time. In this study, the Union and Progress, which was a movement that had a significant impact on the last period of the Ottoman Empire, and the understanding of National Economy put forward by it; discussed in the context of economics, political history and literature. In the first part of the study, a general evaluation was made about the Ottoman economic understanding. Afterwards, information was given about the Union and Progress and its economic understanding. In the last part, the war profiteers, who emerged from the National Economy understanding of the Union and Progress, in the Turkish novel was evaluated.

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