Cultural elements of Turkish nationalism [Türk Ulusçuluǧunun Kültürel Araçlari]

The emergence of folklore is closely related to the birth of turkish nationalism because during the birth and the rising stage of turkish nationalism,a movement called 'towards public' was initiated to find the core of national identity and during this movement,the source,which was referred to,was the 'village'. the major reason for this is to glean the features of turkish people from the village,the purest social unit and thus to create a nation. this trend continued to prevail during the republic period and became the foundation of the project for creating a nation. therefore,intellectuals turned their face towards the village and began to compile all kinds of cultural elements from people's mouth to make the village a center that provides inspiration and material from music to folk dances to art. nevertheless,this romantic village movement that was once supported by state cultural organizations and continued with some artists produced works using a folkloric discourse,some socialist poets,instead of augmenting the public culture,preferred creating a new and national art through filtering the public culture through a critical standpoint.