![]() ![]() ![]() His thought, which popularized Pan-Turkism and Turanism, has been described as a "cult of nationalism and modernization". He found Greeks, Armenians and Jews to be a foreign body in the national Turkish state. He advocated a Turkification of the Ottoman Empire, by promoting Turkish language and culture to all Ottoman citizenry. Influenced by contemporary European thought, particularly by the sociological view of Émile Durkheim, Gökalp rejected both the Ottomanism and Islamism in favor of Turkish nationalism. Gökalp's work was particularly influential in shaping the reforms of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk his influence figured prominently in the development of Kemalism, and its legacy in the modern Republic of Turkey. In a 1936 publication, sociologist Niyazi Berkes described Gökalp as "the real founder of Turkish sociology, since he was not a mere translator or interpreter of foreign sociology". As a sociologist, Ziya Gökalp was influential in the negation of Islamism, pan-Islamism, and Ottomanism as ideological, cultural, and sociological identifiers. ![]() After the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that reinstated constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire, he adopted the pen name Gökalp ("celestial hero"), which he retained for the rest of his life. ![]() Mehmet Ziya Gökalp (23 March 1876 – 25 October 1924) was a Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and politician. Branko Merxhani, Sati' al-Husri, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ![]()
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