Bir İmparatorluk Entelektüeli Olarak Ziya Gökalp

Ziya Gokalp was the intellectual leader of the Turkism of the Constitutional Period, besides being the founding father of sociology in Turkey. In spite of all his Turkist orientation, Gokalp was able to develop a new point of vision about the evaluation of the heritage of Ottoman history and the relations with the Islamic world. This vision which seperated him from the radical and narrow Turkist perspective of his contemporaries was put forward in his book Tiirkle~mek, lslamla~mak, MuaslYla~mak. Gokalp has grown up in the cultural climate of the Ottoman Empire and his intellectual orientation has gained a shape in the circle of this civilization. He was also part of a political cadre whose members were trying to perpetuate some kind of empire politics. We can easily say that, these three factors come together, have determined the ideas put forward in his classical work.