Ziya Gökalp

Ziya Gökalp (1875 or March 23 1876, Diyarbakır—October 25 1924, İstanbul) was a prominent Turkish ideologue of Pan-Turkism or Turanism. Gökalp was publicist and pioneer sociologist. He was influenced by modern western European, especially French and German, thought and elaborated an ideology of Turkish nationalism which was largely implemented, after his death, by Kemal Atatürk.Ziya Gökalp (this last name, Old Turkish Sky warrior or Blue warrior, was originally a pen name), after attending a local secondary school, settled in the capital İstanbul (in 1896). He had already imbibed the liberal and reformist ideas which were associated with what became the Committee of Union and Progress.
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