Analyzing the foreign policy discourse of the political Islamist movement in Turkey in the cold war era over the Islamic guidance novels

Turkey, as an official policy, took part in the Western Alliance in the Cold War era. On the orther hand, the domestic political movements developed foreign policy discourses about the bipolar international system according to their principles and interests. The discourses had been more visible because firstly the developing democratic environment after 1946 and then enlarging civic liberties after 1960. Islamism is one of the oldest and effective political movement. Reactionary developed against the west but taking its values eclectically, Islamist thought withdrew from the public and academic area after the secular revolution process after the proclamation of the republic. Novel, is one of the most political genres of the literature. Transferring political messages to the reader in a fictional context is both an effective and judicially secure method. Guidence novels, which had been written after 1960, were tools of propaganda and doctrinal education for the Islamist thought of the era. Functioned as mass media, these novels socialized the reader around the Islamist ideology. As every text of political propaganda, the foreign policy discourse of the defended ideology exists in the guidance novels. In this thesis, the question of "how was the foreign policy discourse of the Islamism of Cold War Era Turkey" is analyzed through discourse and context analysis method over the guidance novels. At the end of the thesis, two bestseller guidance novels, Minyeli Abdullah and Oğlum Osman, are analyzed with the developed thesis.