Toplumsal Hafızanın Oluşturulması: Kutü’l Amare Zaferi’nin Hatırlatılması
Creating Social Memory: Reminding of the Victory of Kutü'l Amare

Summary/Abstract: Memory signifies things practiced directly by us. Remembering, on the other hand, implies recalling the past with post facto retained experiences. Individual memories are formed by determining significant touchstones inhabiting social memory. Leaders, in order to orientate social memory, can make different reading for different periods of history. Collective memory is a state acquainted post facto. Nowadays, by exploiting the political elite, social media, television, internet, posters, thoughts of social memory can be altered. Within the concept of collective remembering discourses of leaders in general and particularly discourses they employ in invoking an incident holds a crucial position. In addition, commemorations and rituals too possess a considerable importance in keeping social memory in order. According to Vamik Volkan, selected victories and selected traumas are used in the construction of social memory. They provide an activity that will keep the society together and provide unity. In a place which immigration is higher remembering is more weaker. In this work, the Kutu'l Amare Victory will be examined as a historical event to publicize the public memory in televisions, social media, billboards and various broadcasting regions to revitalize social memory. In this context, the relationship between the activities carried out for the reremembering of Kutlu'l Amare and the literature was questioned. Although Kutu'l Amare is far from the Turkish geography, it has been determined that collecting reminders have been attempted despite the fact that a hundred years have elapsed over the event.

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