Abstract:

Altın Işık, one of the Turkism journal is published eight volumes because of economic reasons. The journal is named after the ideas of Ziya Gökalp and it is intended to illuminate humanity, that is in darkness. There are nationalism, history, literature, criticism, figure, interviews, current affairs, translation, publicity papers, poems and story in the journal. As well as articles on the “nation” concept, articles in the journal referred to the issue of racism. Turanism which wants to bring all the Turks together as a political ideology, is included in the journal. But, Ziya Gökalp’s idea of Turanism is criticized. It is emphasized that he differenticted the idea of Turkism afrom his own idea. Anti-communism one of the phenomenon constituing Turkist-Turanist thougt is included in Altın Işık. Even the communist propaganda of the national education policy of the era (1940’s) is criticized in the journal. However, understanding of uniting anti-semitism and anti-comunism in Turkist-Turanist thought doesn’t appear in Altın Işık journal. The Journal involves subjects on Otoman history and emphasizes nationalist aspects of Ömer Seyfettin, Mehmet Âkif and Rıza Nur. Articles comprising ideas on social problems such as immigration and beggars are also published in the journal that includes interviews on the national education policy and music.

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