Idris Kuçukomer's Understanding of Westernization and Civil Society

This study which addresses the thoughts of idris kucukomer on modernization, westernization, turkish modernization, democracy and civil society issues manifests the philosophy of kucukomer which makes him unique. idris kucukomer asserts that the struggle between feudal organizations and the bourgeois classes as well as the traces of this struggle on all the generated political, legal and economic developments and orders have had an influence on the current political structure of the west. however, he emphasizes with persistence that we do not have these structures and the struggle experienced in the west has not taken place and therefore any westernization steps are without foundation. idris kucukomer indicates that in turkey, westernization has remained merely on a level of affectation and the fact that no assessment has been made as to whether the transpositions have an equivalent in society has lead to the fracturing in our political understanding which continues to date. idris kucukomer pioneered putting the civil society issue on the agenda in turkey and emphasized the necessity to establish a civil society. the ideas asserted by idris kucukomer regarding social issues have the capacity to discredit dominant views in numerous subjects. kucukomer who spent his whole life in an ontological and epistemological search and challenged himself and his own society with the most brutal questions during this search displayed a profound struggle to understand what is/what we are and subsequently to manifest what should be/what we should be.