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The main objective of this article is to try to understand some sociological approaches in the poems of Mehmet Akif Ersoy, a well-known and writer of the Turkish National March in Turkey. Mehmet Akif Ersoy is very concerned about the social and cultural problems arising in the newly established Republic of Turkey. Specifically inclined to the relationships between the individual and society and developed a historic pathway in the study of social issues in a broad perspective. In this way he tried to worship the wisdom of the East with the aesthetic modernity of the West. Their poems are related to social and cultural problems as well as the problems of individuals living in the country. In fact, it has found a way to criticize and ironicly address the continuing social problems for centuries. For him it seems possible to find many social and cultural realities in his poems. These characteristics have made him one of the most famous, creative and powerful poets in the history of Turkey.

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