Erken Cumhuriyet devrinde Türk liberalizminin ikilemleri: Ahmet Ağaoğlu

This thesis examines Ahmet Ağaoğlu, a nationalist intellectual, at the same time one of the important figures of Turkish liberalism during the Early Republican Period in the Turkey. The concepts in which the liberal attitude in Ağaoğlu is observed and the dilemmas which are incompatible with classical liberalism in these concepts constitute the field of examination of this thesis. In this study, by examining Ağaoğlu's liberalism in the Early Republican Period it will be presented that the liberal values he defended during this period are not based on classic liberalism and its values but based on liberal nationalism. It will be shown that Ahmet Ağaoğlu's main controversy, and his liberal contradictions at the Early Republican Period are in fact not a contradiction but a characteristic of its liberal nationalist attitude, and that contradictions can be assessed in the context of Kemalist power-intellectual relations are also based on his eclectic ideology. Keywords: liberalism, liberal nationalism, Turkish liberalism, Early Republican Period