OSMANLI'DAN CUMHURİYET'E SINIRIN ENTELEKTÜEL İZLEKLERİ: NAMIK KEMAL, ZİYA GÖKALP VE MEHMET AKİF ERSOY'DA SINIR İMGESİ.

This study aims to understand the borders in the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic through the approaches of the intellectuals of the period. For this purpose, the concept of border was discussed in the thought of Namık Kemal, Ziya Gökalp and Mehmet Akif Ersoy, who were the leading intellectuals of the period. The main problematic of this study is where the borders are located and what they symbolize in the approaches and solution proposals of the intellectuals of the period. Within the framework of this problematic, the study focuses on the meanings contained in the borders of the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic through the approaches of the intellectuals in question. It has been understood that borders are part of the homeland as a sacred idea and a supreme value in Namık Kemal, a carrier of Turkish nationalism, national identity and cultural differences from Turan to Anatolia in Ziya Gökalp, and a constituent element of a sacred place and Turkish-Islamic identity in Mehmet Akif Ersoy. In the thinking of all three intellectuals, borders are not a geographical sign, but rather the carrier of values that express the homeland and nation. In the said period, it has been seen that borders are an expression of getting rid of extinction and coming into existence out of nothing. In this context, it has been understood that the borders were defensive in the last period of the Ottoman Empire, but constructive in the early Republican period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]