Journals / Çağdaş Türkiye Tarihi Araştırmaları Dergisi / 2017 / Cilt: 17 - Sayı: 34
THE REFLECTIONS OF ATATÜRK’S VISIT TO TEKİRDAĞ ON MEDIA DURING TO PROCESS OF LETTER REVOLUTION
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- 191–214
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Abstract
The purpose of Turkish Revolution was to provide the newly founded TurkishGovernment a national structure in the political, economical, cultural and social sphere.Because of the Ottoman Empire’s Pan-Islamic state structure, Turkish people was forced touse Ottoman Turkish which was a written language that did not reflect their own language.Although it was understood in Tanzimat Period that Ottoman Turkish was complicatedTurkish people’s literacy, none of the statesmen dared to accept Latin alphabet because tochange Ottoman Turkish that was accepted as a written language and to accept Latin alphabetwere perceived as offensive to traditions and language.Ghazi Mustafa Kemal, who was aware of the fact that it was vitally necessary for theTurkish nation to regain their own language, history and culture in order to reach in order toreach modernity. After he set up a new political form of Turkish State, he took action to giveTurkish society’s own national culture. The first step was the realization of Letter Revolutionin the struggle of gaining national culture of Turkish Nation and returning the actual identityof Turkish Nation. To realize it in a short period, he went to blackboard on his own; he taughtto teachers, scientists and the members of Parliament; he examined them and emboldenedthem about that situation. As each revolution he carried out, he took great support fromthe press about being adopted Turkish Alphabet. Besides those, he went to country trip toadopt new letters to Turkish people. Tekirdağ was the first place where he went for that aim.Tekirdağ which was Ghazi Mustafa Kemal’s first commander of military division, took thefirst city title as Ghazi’s going to board as a teacher on 23rd august 1928. In that time, loveand trust that Tekirdağ’s people showed towards to Ghazi and sincerity in learning TurkishAlphabet, increased Ghazi’s perseverance and courage about realization of Letter Alphabet.
Özet
Türk inkılâbının amacı, yeni kurulan Türk devletine siyasal, ekonomik, kültürel ve