Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi Çocuk Dergilerinde ‘İdeal Türk Çocuğu’nun İnşası: Yavrutürk ve Cumhuriyet Çocuğu Dergileri Üzerine Bir İnceleme (original) (raw)

2019, Erciyes İletişim Dergisi

In process the transition from empire to nation-state, the founding elites of the Republic attempted to create a national collective identity and tried to build a modern community of the citizens suitable for the new regime. In addition to educational tools, popular periodicals were used in raising new citizens who adopted the Republican values. At this point, children's magazines provided wide opportunities to reach children as citizens of the future and to adopt Republic values. In this study, the ways in which children were represented in children's magazines in the one-party period were analyzed. The aim of the study is to reveal how the 'ideal Turkish child' was built in children's magazines published in mentioned period; and uncover the relationship of this building process with the official citizenship ideology and child policy of the period. In the study, prepared with historical descriptive analysis method, Yavrutürk (1936-1942) and Cumhuriyet Çocuğu (1938-1939) were examined. Yavrutürk and Cumhuriyet Çocuğu magazines are weekly children's magazines published by Türkiye Printing House in the ownership of Tahsin Demiray, who is one of the first and most important representatives of children's magazine publishing in Turkey. It was determined that the image of the child presented in the reviewed magazines was built in parallel with the official citizenship ideology and children's policy of the period. 'Ideal Turkish child' was represented as Kemalist, reformist, modern, hard-working, determined, ambitious, economical, moral, kind, helpful, respectful to individual, society and nature, nationalist, courageous and warrior, patriotic citizen around the dominant values of the Republic in both magazines.