Abstract:

The first movements towards the modernization in Ottoman thought have been witnessed at the beginning of the 18th century. In this period when the new western values have been shaped under the military, political and executive targets, the tendency for the positive sciences has been crystallized and many essential books have been translated respectively.The first decades of the 18th century, which has been depicted as the wakening in Turkish Enlightenment, naturally, has been the beginning of the process which penetrate many European components from the architecture to home garden decoration, from the food and beverage to the wearing. Thus, firstly Court and the street have been confronted with the gradual transformation. This great transformation is supposed to be reflected in literature as the mirror of the life. Especially the poetry has exceeded the traditional boundaries since the Tulip Revolution. In this study, firstly, modernization process will be analyzed within the extent of Europe and Ottoman comparatively and the explained its reflections on the literature with different dimensions

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