Abstract
MEHMET AKIF ERSOY'S REPRESENTATIVE MISSION AND BERLIN IMPRESSIONS
Our national poet Mehmet Âkif Ersoy is a man of mission with his works and life. Its high power of representation is a uniting leaven around the themes of homeland, nation, faith and freedom. Sebîlurreshad's editorship and the travels he took through the “Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa” are essential in acquiring this representative mission. His writings and poems in Sebîlüreşâd made him known and loved both in the Ottoman geography and in the world. His duties, which started to come to the fore with his trip to Germany, formalized his unifying and conciliatory mission. Akif makes realistic observations and determinations about the East-West conflict, the backwardness of the East, and the West's policies of fragmentation and exploitation. He does his best to unite the nation along the lines of unity, industriousness and independence by giving place to self-criticism as well as criticism. In this study, the pioneer and representative mission of Mehmet Âkif at the beginning of the national and spiritual awakening and resistance will be examined. Being invited to Berlin by the German Government during World War I, his activities in Berlin, his impressions and the effects of this trip on the years of the National Struggle will be the main centrical points in the process of acquiring this mission.
Keywords
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy, Germany Travel, “Berlin Hatıraları” Poem, National Representative Mission, Nation
