Fahreddi̇n Altay (1880-1974): Under the Shadow of Militarism


Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Modern Türkiye Çalışmaları Anabilim Dalı (Disiplinlerarası), Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2019

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: AYŞEGÜL KOCA

Danışman: Abdulhamit Kirmizi

Özet:

Fahreddin Altay is one of the representatives of the Ottoman generation born in the 1880s. He grew up in an environment in which wars were becoming more destructive, complicated and organized. He became part of the high ranking military elite, and then became a staff officer and commander in wars that lasted almost ten years. Then, as one of the high ranking representatives of the army; he carried out different duties and became a deputy in the republican period. The main aim of this thesis is to merge a multidimensional phenomenon, reflecting each field of life differently, militarization of society with a genre of historiography that is biography, including various fields of life, thus putting an alternative interpretation on the period, transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey. While the different reflections of the phenomenon, militarization of society made his life a typical example of it, at the same time, in such an ordinary life, his perception of the environment, his reactions to events and the level of his influence on them made his world virtually unique. This thesis, the only biography in this field to be based on a concept, different from the various books written by focusing on it, rather than the events, is a contribution to the new historiography bringing back the agent by measuring the influence of it on a person in various fields and specific events. Combining human perception with unique human experience, his life provides very different from the others so often narrated a portrait of a military officer in the period.