Özet:

Reforms that were accelerated with the decleration of the republic caused fundamental changes in community life. Those reforms aim to create a new type of people in every sense. The aim to create “a new type of people” is accompanied with the identity crisis on the basis of both individual and society. Identity crisis which is a social and a sociological fact was frequently covered in novels which were written in early years of the republic. Types of people and society which were intended to be created were transferred to people by means of literary works and literary works were used as tools to build a new society. Those works which were used as communication instruments contributed to shaping of the society and reflected its way of living. In almost all of Yakup Kadri’s novels, this feature is predominant and it reflects the painful sides of the era in which the people has been living. Situation of the people who completely lost their identities or the people who changed during the journey of Europeanisation is unfolded in Yakup Kadri’s “Ankara” novel; and the ideal type of person successfully takes place in it. In this work, details about characteristics of the people who suffer from identity crisis in the mentioned work are attempted to be examined with the mindset of the period.