Abstract
RUSSIFICATION AS A NEGATIVE MOTIVE IN CENGIZ DAGCI'S NOVEL "THEY WERE ALSO HUMAN"
Since human beings are social creatures by nature, they are born, grow and develop within a certain group. The structure, which is in affects many elements that complete the person, such as the person's worldview, belief, culture, and spiritual world. Thanks to this structure, which is instrumental in the emergence of a national identity, its existence in the world has a purpose. Within the framework of this identity, he maintains his life and transfers the values that emerge as a result of the outputs of his life to the next generations. It creates its own self by living around a certain cultural, moral and spiritual heritage in the world. Cengiz Dağcı, who was born in the Crimean peninsula, is a writer who best conveys the cultural background of the Crimean Turks, from which he emerged as a result of these experiences, and gives his works in Turkish of Turkish Republic. The author, who places the negative situations systematically applied during the period at the center of his works, becomes the voice of his own nation. The author, who conveys many features of the Crimean Turks in the work "They were also human" written by the writer, also presents the social, moral, spiritual and political structure of the period. The author, who defends the right of every nation to live within the framework of its own values, argues that every human being is complemented by elements that are valuable to him. He responds with all the sharpness of his pen to any attack on his own values and beliefs. The essence of our study is to examine the negative process of Russification in the minds of the Crimean Turks as a result of the behavior of the Soviet Union in his work, in which he tells about the systematic abuse of the Crimean Turks in their homeland and the adventure of people being taken from their homeland.
Keywords
Cengiz Dagci, They were also human, motive, Russification, Soviet Union, Crimea.