Özet:

The Ottoman and Republican intellectuals have sought to produce a response to a threatening challeng in the face of the effects of western modernization. Many political ideas have been debated in the hope of "salvation", especially starting from the last days of the Ottoman Empire such as Turkism, Othmanism, Islamism, Westernizm. With different syntheses and interpretations in the face of difficult conditions, the intellectuals struggled by expressing serious opinions on how to stand against Western civilization. In particular, Yusuf Akçura and his ideas are important in understanding the current state of thought and cultural situation of the period. The problem of paper is to understand Yusuf Akçura’s thoughht and religion. Our aim is to reveal the differences in the social and political conditions of the period depending on Akçura's ideas in the tradition of Turkism. Akçura's intellectual infrastruc-ture of Akçura is one of the remarkable results in the study of Turkism, in which the Ottoman Empire had a strong place in the mainstream thinking and also Akçura's personal life emphasized a balanced nationalism in his ideas.

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