Özet:

In many current historical and sociological studies on the tradition of the Turkish state, the concepts of "Eastern despotism" and patrimonialism, formed by the contribution of philosophers and sociologists such as Montesqieue, Hegel and Weber, along with numerous orientalists, travelers and state men, have been used as an analytical tool and are still used. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the concepts are The determining perception that the West, which was widespread in Europe in the century, was superior to other societies, and the addition of modernization theories that were formed in the United States after the Second World War and influenced by these concepts, and more indigenous cultures, which were remarked by Western centralism and prevented modernization, made the research on the political culture, social and mental structure of the "Eastern" more problematic. The research conducted in this framework, secretly or openly, has described the West as more dynamic, rational, democratic, while the East as stable, irrational, and despotic.