ORTADOĞU’DA ARAP SOSYALİZMİ VE MİŞEL EFLAK
Arab Socialism at Middle East and Michel Aflaq

Summary/Abstract: The nations effected by French Revolution revolted againts medieval heritage empires and the values to get individual rights and freedoms and built nation state which contained nation, nationalism, nation sovereignty, secularism, democracy and justice. Also, in the Middle East, Arabic nations had rebelled against Ottoman Empire partically by the effect of French Revolution with the wish of establlisment of their own states since the 19th century. While secular nationalism and national sovereignty came to the fore in the uprisings and independence movements in the West, nationalism and dynasty governments built on religious elements came to the fore in the Arab revolts and independence movements. As a result of this situation, states that were governed by the monarchy under the mandate of British and French in Iraq, Syria and Egypt in the Middle East Arab geography after the First World War. Political movements have started with the aim of realizing the Arab Renaissance by taking the model in Europe as a role model from the first quarter of the 20th century against the mandate administrations. The most prominent of these political movements is Arab socialism with its social and political influence. After the quarter of 20 th centurty Michel Aflaq who on Arabic intellectual having western education, ideologist and a modest socialist wanted to save Arabic nations from the darkness of medieval by means of synthesizing his western origin revolutionary thoughts whit local values. Althought the nationalists and socialist ideas that the former had a place or met in Arab World and came to fower, also trials of combinig all the Arabs in united states, he couldn’t get or achieve a political or sociological success in applications or practices.

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