Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi Türkleştirme Politikaları Bağlamında İki Yahudi Entelektüel ve Faaliyetleri: Avram Galanti ve Moiz Kohen.

Within the Turkish nationalist movement which developed during the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish nation-state, following the foundation of the new Turkish Republic, the development of a common national culture involving all the citizens became an important issue of the political agenda in the early Republican era. Faced with the multi-ethnic social structure inherited from the Ottoman Empire which included various ethnic groups, the ruling elites of the state aimed to design a common national identity, developing with the notion of Turkishness at its core, which would be adopted by all citizens and integrate them. In Turkish political literature, the program which was developed and applied with this aim is named as Turkification policies. While these Turkification policies actually included all non-Turkic groups within the society, non-Muslim citizens had become the main targets of these policies in the early Republican era. From among the Jews, one of the three biggest non-Muslim communities in Turkey, Avram Galanti and Moiz Kohen emerged as two foremost intellectuals with their activities regarding the execution of the Turkification process. The aim of this study is to analyse the the activities of these intellectuals within the context of their functions and Turkification policies. A review of written sources has been performed with this aim. The intellectual activities of Galanti and Kohen have been analysed within their functions of community spokesmanship and community orientation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]