Abstract:

During the Republican era in Turkey, the peasantry was defined as an indispensable element of national identity. How the peasantry is perceived has greatly been affected by the change in the traditional land system. The majority of the population being peasants plays a significant role. It has changed from a romantic interest to a state policy. Various similar reasons also played a role in this transformation. Thus, the new regime aimed to consolidate the regime by including the peasant population in the modernization project. One of the main tools of the project of transforming the peasant population into citizens has been education. Various educational institutions and periodicals educated the rural population. They focused on peasantry. The study will examine articles on law, health, and education in Köy Postası magazine's issues between 1944 and 1950. The magazine published articles about peasantism during that time. In the journal, articles on law, health and education were selected and the document analysis and scanning model was used. The articles were evaluated under separate headings. It was seen that the state's peasantism discourse was conveyed verbatim in these articles. At the same time, these selected articles were evaluated in the context of the rural policies of the state. This occurred in the fields of law, health, and education in the early years of the Republic.

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