1940’LI YILLARDA TÜRKİYE’DE ENTELİJANSİYA, BASIN VE SİYASET İLİŞKİSİ ÜZERİNE
ON RELATION BETWEEN SOCIETY, INTELIGENCIA, MEDIA AND POLITICS IN TURKEY DURING THE YEARS OF 1940s

Summary/Abstract: Years of 1940s in the Turkish History had been an era that had been observed various societal developments related with social and political aspects. By this view, II. World War years in the first half of the 1940s caused different and concrete effects on the Turkish intellectual, economical and political life. Those developments in line with the Western- and US-oriented socio-political and economical effects observed at the second half of the 1940s could be accepted as one of the most important thresh-holds of the Republican history. It is due to the situation that Turkey has commenced to engage into a total integration with the Western World during this period regarding socio-economical, cultural and democratization aspects. However, years of the 1940s had been actually years of destabilization and multi-faceted effects stemming from the reasons due to social and political areas. While situations, effects, approaches and pressures had realized for every sides and classes in the society, the relations between society and politics in Turkey during the years of 1940s have a great value in examining the issue in line with the acceptance that those years could act as mirror for current times. Therewithal, the main aim of this study is to examine the relation between society and politics in Turkey during the years of 1940s.

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