Modernization of Turkey and thought of İslamism; The pattern of Ehli Sunnah journal

The purpose of this study is to deal with the modernization process in Turkey in the context of the Islamist movement and to reveal how Islamist thinkers view the modernization of Turkey. Islamic thinkers also used the magazines, the most important thought sharing platform of the period, and expressed their views in this way. For this reason, it was decided to conduct this study focused on a periodical of the period. Accordingly, Ehli Sunnet, an Islamic journal published in the range covering the end of the single-party period and the first years of the multi-party period, was preferred for the study. The journal of Ehli Sunnet was published with a total of 140 issues by Abdurrahim Zapsu, an Islamist and Kurdish thinker in 1947-53, while he was working in Istanbul, in order to give religious information to children and young people as well as against anti-religious people. This study attempted to figure out, modernization of Turkey, based on the idea of Islamism asserted in the journal of Ehli Sunnet; in the conclusion of the study, the reactions of the Journal to the modernization of Turkey and, its contributions, if so, were discussed. Keywords: Islamism, Modernization, Islamist Journal, Ehli Sunnet Journal, Abdurrahim Zapsu