Mehmet Akif Ersoy's understanding of nationalism

In the 18th century, nationalism gained modern meaning and the problems in multinational empires started to be experienced. This period in which a new administrative order began to be established, made it diffucult fort he great multinational states to survive. In this study, we tried to evaluate the perspective of nationalist poet Mehmet Akif Ersoy, who contributed to the ideas produced in order to stand in the face of the expansionist Western policies of the Ottoman Empire, which was adversely affected by the nationalism movement, living in a wide geography and having people from many different nationalities. The main subject of this study, which is prepared by focusing on the development of his ideas, the search for solutions to the problems of the period, being a person of his ideas and actions, is the unity and the unity that Mehmet Akif Ersoy sees as the solution of the problems fort he survival of the state of unity is explained under the umbrella of nationalism.