Resmi İdeoloji Sahnede

ERTUGRUL: There was a man called the Sultan. He had a palace, but he never left this palace and never showed his face to the people. It was as if the whole country was this palace. Then one day the enemies invaded the country. The Sultan wanted to sell the country to foreigners in order to save his palace. People were angry about this. Our veteran father became the head of the nation, beat the enemies well and expelled them from the country.
29 From the First Tesrin play

Official Ideology On stage, the nationalist-civilizational policies carried out by Kemalism in the process of building the modern nation-state and their main emphasis on education, peasantism, development, lessons to be learned from "famous history", internal and external "enemies" in various disguises, the legacy inherited from the Ottoman Empire. It looks closely at the discourse articulated and produced by the plays, which include topics such as evil, leader cult, trust in the army, and sacrifice for the Republic. It reveals the place of official ideology in both shaping the theater's own content and shaping people. School performances, village plays, 10th Anniversary Celebration plays, which were written/composed for the purpose of being played by the Community Centers, which were "institutions of education and training" in their own right to "educate" the people, direct them to the "right path" and establish Kemalist principles, were included in the Turkish History Thesis. Related games reveal the key role of this tool.
A study that looks at the questions of what kind of discourse the dominant ideology produced through the plays written in the 1930s and on what elements it was built, and deals with the background of the art used for propaganda...

"Only plays that defend national theses are represented on the public house stages. Our subjects are the general Turkish history and the numerous phases of the national struggle, each of which can be a capital of honor and pride for a nation forever, the good morals and high virtues of the Turk, the material and spiritual infinite powers in the Turkish spirit, etc. "It will take from the springs."
Minister of National Education Resit Galip



Number of Pages: 304

Year of Printing: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 304

First Printing Year: 2013

Language Turkish