Özet:

In this study, Ankara, which is one of the important works of Turkish literature in the Republican period, has been considered as a utopia and it is aimed to be written, by those who are members of the Kadro Movement including Yakup Kadri along with characters and the story meeting for its storyline, to discuss, have it sense and hear out political issues whose purposes are to direct Turkish Revolution. To make it more specific, Lady Selma, who is the protagonist of the novel, has been allegorically associated either with her home country or the Turkish government. Moreover, her last spouse Mr. Neşet Sabit has also been allegorically associated with the members of Kadro magazine. It has been emphasized that the intellectual discussion environment of the period in which the Ankara novel was written has an important place in Turkish literature in terms of handling it in a literary work. In order to reach these inferences, firstly, the concepts of utopia and political utopia has been briefly discussed along with the historical reasons and facts in the emergence of the Kadro Movement and its product Kadro magazine. As a result of these, the basic elements of the Kadro Movement ideology has been summarized. Finally, the suggestion that there is a relationship between the utopia fiction and the ideology of the Kadro, which Yakup Kadri, one of the representatives of the movement, revealed in his novel Ankara, is supported by the quotations from the third part of the novel.

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