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Hasan-Ali Yücel ve Türk Aydınlanması
Hasan-Ali Yücel ve Türk Aydınlanması
Biography / Intellectual History
Şengör's own monograph on Hasan Ali Yücel, the education minister who launched the World Classics translation project and the Village Institutes. Şengör calls Yücel the person who understood Atatürk best, and the book is his attempt to recover that lineage of the Turkish Enlightenment.
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“Hasan Ali Yücel, as far as I can see, is the man who best understood Atatürk.”
Şengör's framing of his own Yücel biography: he reads Yücel as the most faithful implementer of Atatürk's Enlightenment project and recommends the book as a corrective to forgotten Republican intellectual history.