Özet:

Having made signifcant suggestions and comparisons between the cultural features of his own society and xvı. century Turkish culture and its structural development, O. C. Busbecq, in his memorial writings, critically assessed the cultural differences between societies. With an appeal to Busbecq’s suggestions, we have in this study attempted to delineate the borders of the cultural and mental differences between Turkısh and Western societies in a sociological context. As a consequence, we have reached the conclusion that some of the cultural and ethic features that Turkısh socety had developed in past should be updated and rehabilitated in aperiod like this in which we see Turkısh society is experiencing a great cultural change.

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