Özet:

Throughout human history, many civilizations have emerged and analyses have been made about the civilizations that have emerged. These analyses and evaluations have been shaped depending on the perception of life by individuals or thinkers. At this point, Ziya Gökalp, who came to the fore as an important thinker in the history of Turkish thought, put forward a civilization imagination on the basis of Turkification, Islamization and Modernization. In addition to this, he made many studies on the concepts of Turk, Turkishness and Turkism and shed light on his period and those after him. Gökalp, who especially focused on the concept of culture and preferred to use this concept as hars, brought a new approach to the concepts of culture, ideal and civilization and contributed to social change and political transformation through these concepts. When his studies and approaches are evaluated as a whole, it is seen that he left important traces in the Turkish world of thought. In this context, in this study, Ziya Gökalp's biography, personal characteristics, his approach to the concepts of heritage and civilization will be discussed and the political and cultural structure of the period in which he lived and the transformation that followed will be analyzed in a historical course.