Özet:

The influences of nationalism on the Republic of Turkey, which is one of the most influential political ideas of the modern era, which can be defined as the late national state, are closely related to the size of the relationship established with Westernization. The relationship established by the Republic with the West has taken over the balance of a rooted modernization tradition that led the last century of the Ottoman State. It appears that the Ottoman modernization has interacted with flows such as Islamism, Batchism and Turkishism throughout the 19th century. In this context, a continuity from the Ottoman to the Republic is seen at the point where nationality takes its position over relations with the West. The general appearance of modernization in the late Ottoman period sometimes turns to the conservative reflections created by the concern of land integrity against the West, and sometimes to the thought of the need for a more radical change in the Western route. This situation constitutes an axis in which nationalism and orientalism are joined through the Western civilization idea, designed by the emphasis on Turkey’s unity and the acceptance of being a society needed for development. Bozkurt is an acting man who stands out as one of the most obvious examples of Orientalist criticism among his thoughts and the important figures of the period. Bozkurt's nationalist thought and his relationship with the West makes it possible to deal with it in an orientalistic context. During the article, Mahmut Esat Bozkurt was studied in terms of the contact of Turkish nationalism with orientalism. Considering the mental background of orientalism, the orientalistic topics in Bozkurt have been tried to be decoded.