Peyami Safa'nın düşünceleri ekseninde Türk modernleşmesinin incelenmesi
Abstract
Peyami Safa is known with more literal identity in the Turkish thought of life. But, because of earning his life from his pen, Peyami Safa wrote out in many fields wide from literature to sociology for very important different subjects. One of these subjects was the question of westernization, which took place at the first site of the Turkish thought movement in this time.According to Peyami Safa, the life of Turkısh Nation has been pressed hard between east and west, so Turkish people lived most torture in the history. The Turkısh Nation can be rescued from this difficult position by a new method of modernization. Here, Peyami Safa spent his all life to find out the best method which should carry out the turkısh modernization to success. Peyami Safa has accepted different ideas by searching the subject.In the early years of Turkish Repuplic, Peyami Safa was a foremost ideolog of Kemalist moderniztion project. The establishing staff of republic has been intended to create the individual of national state free from dogmatic thoughts and equipped with positive sciences. Peyami Safa has tried to strive the legal background of this republican individuality with his articles written in the 1930?s. In this era, Peyami Safa affirmated the positivist concepts but was against the mistical thoughts. He believed on the values of Kemalist modernization ideas which broken off from old values but arose on new ones.Peyami Safa leaved these opinions mostly in the 1950?s. The social conservative artery of ideas was ineffective in the years of 1930?s and 1940?s. It came out to life again in 1950?s. Peyami Safa also has accepted the wise of conservative thinking. According to the new stand, positive sciences could not explain and solve all questions. Mistic thoughts constitute a source to remove the humanity from crisis who was thrust into. Between east and west oppressed turkish nation could arrive the safety not facing only to the ideas in the west, but with synthesizing the ideas in the east and west. In 1950?s, according to Safa, the revolutions applied in Atatürk?s era are in developing way by inspiration of ancestral values not breaking off the past.