Nurettin Topçu's modernism and western approach

Despite Its simplest definition 'seperating the old from the new one', The word modern has many definitions. Although it is a time-based concept, modernism has become a sociological concept especially after the 19th century. We agree that modernism belongs to the West. For some Western thinkers and orientalists, modernism means the West and the other. As modernization means industrialization, modernism has become a serious problem for non-developed countries except for the West. These technically incapable societies have been both exposed and exploited by modernism in the search for raw materials and markets of the modern West. Modernism began to affect the Ottoman Empire, which could not be the same as due to it was due tı lots of defeats when it was a state. Although the Ottoman Empire could not accept the distressed process at first, it later accepted that it was due to its inability to keep up with the era. The Ottomans began to approach the West frantically, but could not understand that the modernism of the West was due to industrialization. What they brought directly from the West in the name of modernism could not overcome their problems. This situation continued in the Republican period. The basic concern of Turkish thinkers in the Republican period was that ''How do we become westernized?''Nurettin Topçu stands out in his approach to the West and modernism, he is ahead of the names that make the difference. Nurettin Topçu is one of the leading figures of anti- modernism in our country. Topçu thinks critically. This is the most important difference that separates him from the Turkish thinkers of the time. The common concern of all the thinkers since the weakening of the Ottomans has been 'how can we be like before'. The solutions to this problem are in the axis of Westernization and modernization. Topçu has been opposed to modernization in the Republican era and He considered the West as different from the thinkers of his time. He has a different perception of modernism than even religious people who love him.Topçu strongly criticized our separation from our own values in the name of Western modernism, and stated that we had the solution to the problems. He stated that this century was a machine civilization and restricted the freedoms of human. He evaluated modernism in a different way from the thinkers of the period with his own point of view. In this study, Nurettin Topçu's approach to the West and modernism is discussed. The point of view that separates Topçu from contemporary thinkers is the reason for this work. This work is firstly prepared with the works of Topçu, and then with the books, articles and articles about him.