Türk Edebiyatında Orta Asya’dan Söz Eden İlk Roman: Gönül Hanım

The Turkish states founded in Central Asia have always attracted the attention of Turkish poets and authors. These lands accepted as the fatherland have been subject to literary works from time to time. Especially, The Turkish intellectuals that want to establish a national state and yearning the Great Turan with the effect of nationalist movement had produced various works to introduce the Central Asian Turkish lands to Anatolian Turks and to remind them where their roots come from even they had never been to those lands. Here one of these literati is Ahmet Hikmet Muftuoglu. In his thesis novel Gonul Hanim; he introduced fatherland and Gokturk monuments to his readers within a novel fiction in order to create awareness of Turkishness and also pointed the ways to reach to the level of the western world through the heroes. In this article, we are going to introduce this work which is the first novel in Turkish literature mentioning Central Asia and put forth the ideas of the author related to Central Asia, Turkish world and Turkish union by using the novel analysis method.