This thesis attempts to establish the First Turkish History Congress (July 2-11, 1932) as an exemplary moment that can help us understand the relationship between nationalism and historiography. ![]() These two discourses, present in the works of the author but difficult to see together, are closely related with the efforts of Modern Turkey to search its identity and its paradoxical stance against Westernization. The Fisherman of Halicarnassus, on the one hand, proposes a new identity against thc "nationalist" discourse by opening up a different room for culture: on thc other, (in his historieal novels) dwells on a style glorifying the Ottoman/Turkish identity against the West. The Fisherman of Halicarnassus (in Turkish, Halikarnas Balikçisi), the representative of the said ideology in literature, shows various features of his stand in his novels and stories. ![]() Civilization is based and that people of today are the natural inheritors of this cultural background. In the cultural and historical trends of the Republican period, the Blue Humanism, holding a unique thesis, suggests that Anatolia is the ultimate source of all the values on which the Western. ![]() The intellectual orientation to defining the Turkish culture and identity on the basis of the classical Aegean/ Mediteranean Civilization is called Blue Anatolian Nationalism and/or Blue Humanism.
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