THE LIFE OF ATATÜRK, THE INTELLECTUAL ATMOSPHERE OF HIS ERA,HIS TEACHERS, AND THE LOCAL & FOREIGN WRITERS, POETS, AND PHILOSOPHERS WHO INFLUENCED HIM

April 7, 2025 – Monday
Bodrum Municipality Nurol Cultural Center (Oasis AVM)
14:00 – 16:00

SPEAKERS AND THEIR TOPICS:
• Reyhan DESTAN
Atatürk’s youth and his teachers.
The political situation in the Ottoman Empire and Europe in the early 1900s.
Namık Kemal, Ziya Gökalp, Tevfik Fikret, and Atatürk’s adoption of the concept of “nation.”
The French historian, religious scholar, linguist, and philosopher E. Renan, who reconciled science and religion.
• Nazo ÇELEBİ
The enlightenment of thought, philosophers of the era, and Atatürk.
Alphonse Daudet, Kant, Auguste Comte.
• Semih ADIYAMAN
Becoming Atatürk.
• Eftal KÖKLÜ
Atatürk’s readings and influences:
J.J. Rousseau, Voltaire, René Descartes.