Abstract:

Culture can be defined as a collection of spiritual values that upholds nations . The more the collection of spiritual values that occur religion, language, history, tradition and morality enrich, the more the nations advance. The nations who could not claim their cultural values and scorn them are doomed to destroy themselves in the future. In his works, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar mentions about cultural crisis, cultural degeneration in the Turkish society, people stuck between the east and west after the Reforms and criticizes the Turkish people who deny their own culture. In this paper, we have studied Tanpınar’s revealing the corruption that occurred in Turkish society and also dealt with criticizing the people who are ignorant, uncultured and do not improve themselves. In our study, Tanpınar’s critique of the cultural aspects of Turkish society, not compromising of their own values, recommendations to avoid the misbehaviors of leading Turkey’s development and cultural loss are also included.

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