Türkçeye Çevrilen Metinleri Üz Erinden Feroz Ahmad’i Anlamayi Denemek
Try to Understand Feroz Ahmed Over Texts Translated Into Turkish

Summary/Abstract: Considering Feroz Ahmad’s contribution to Turkish world of thought, it is not possible not to see its two distinct features. The first one is the continuity in Feroz Ahmad’s thesis. In the texts he wrote in the recent past, he did not reject the thesis that he produced in the early stages. Secondly, he pursued the reverse chronology while trying to understand the history or the development and structure of Turkey. In his books focusing on the general history of Turkey, the starting point goes backwards at each phase. The book which has a significant weight in Feroz Ahmad’s world of thought is his first book: “The Young Turks”. One can see the shadow of the book “The Young Turks” on most of the texts he wrote afterwards. On the other hand, the books “The Turkish Experiment in Democracy” and “The Making Of Modern Turkey” are considered to have a successful place in the Turkish world of thought. “Turkey, The Quest for Identity” is like a summary of the author’s intellectual history. Feroz Ahmad discussed almost every point in the last hundred and fifty years of history of Turkey. His main thesis concentrate on the Young Turks, Kemalism and relation between military and politics. He seriously tried to figure out the class structure of Turkey and transformation of the army depending on time, politics and economic structure. In fact, his primary concern seems like trying to tell the matter over classes, status quo and the army. While putting emphasis on the idea that there is a continuity in the economic policies of Young Turks and Kemalists, he argued that it would be correct to consider the Republic as a disengagement from the past. While doing these, he partly conflicted with the right - left thesis and partly produced ideas in parallel with these thesis.

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