Ziya Gökalp

Mehmet Ziya Gökalp (born Mehmed Ziya, 23 March 1876 – 25 October 1924) was a Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and politician. After the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that reinstated constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire, he adopted the pen name Gökalp ("celestial hero"), which he retained for the rest of his life. As a sociologist, Ziya Gökalp was influential in the negation of Islamism, pan-Islamism, and Ottomanism as ideological, cultural, and sociological identifiers. In a 1936 publication, sociologist Niyazi Berkes described Gökalp as "the real founder of Turkish sociology, since he was not a mere translator or interpreter of foreign sociology".

Gökalp's work was particularly influential in shaping the reforms of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; his influence figured prominently in the development of Kemalism, and its legacy in the modern Republic of Turkey. Influenced by contemporary European thought, particularly by the sociological view of Émile Durkheim, Gökalp rejected both the Ottomanism and Islamism in favor of Turkish nationalism. He advocated a Turkification of the Ottoman Empire, by promoting Turkish language and culture to all Ottoman citizenry. He found Greeks, Armenians and Jews to be a foreign body in the national Turkish state. His thought, which popularized Pan-Turkism and Turanism, has been described as a "cult of nationalism and modernization". His nationalist ideals espoused a de-identification with Ottoman Turkey's nearby Arab neighbors, instead advocating for a super-national Turkish (or pan-Turkic) identity with "a territorial Northeast-orientation [to] Turkic peoples". Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Gökalp, Ziya, 1876-1924
    Published 1976
    İstanbul : Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı : [dağıtam] Devlet Kitaplari, 1976.
    140 p. ; 20 cm.
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    by Gökalp, Ziya, 1876-1924
    Published 1923
    Ankara : Matbuat ve Istihbarat Matbaasi, 1339 [1923]
    174 p.
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    by Gökalp, Ziya, 1876-1924
    Published 1918
    İstanbul : Yeni Mecmua, 1918
    66 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm.
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    by Gökalp, Ziya, 1876-1924
    Published 1925
    İstanbul : Matbaa-yi Âmire, 1341 [1925]-
    v. <1 > ; 23 cm.
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    by Gökalp, Ziya, 1876-1924
    Published 1918
    İstanbul : Yeni Mecmua, 1918
    1 online resource ([66] pages)
    Center for Research Libraries
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    Published 1922
    Diyâr-i Bekr : [s.n.], 1922-
    v. ; 21 cm.
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    Published 1922
    Diyâr-i Bekr : [s.n.], 1922-
    1 online resource (v.)
    Other Authors: “...Gökalp, Ziya, 1876-1924...”
    Center for Research Libraries: no.1-33 (Jun 1922-Mar 1923)
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