XX. YÜZYIL BAŞLARINDA TÜRKİYE’YE YÖNELEN AZERBAYCANLI ŞAİR VE YAZARLAR

In the first quarter of the 20th century, there were many Azerbaijani intellectuals who devoted themselves to national independence and became a bridge between Turkey and Azerbaijan. In this study, these intellectuals, writers and poets will be studied. As known, after the French Revolution (1789), especially in Europe, social structures were radically distrusted. The revolution in the form of a civil commotion nourished nationalist ideas and paved the way for the emergence of new nation states. During the 19th century, feudal structures began to be replaced by nation states and democracies. The spread of nationalism ideas to other geographies of the world and the idea of freedom and the emergence of new nation-states in those places with these effects were quite later than the European continent. For instance, the reflection of freedom ideas to the Ottoman Empire and Tsarist Russia was almost 70-80 years delayed. Its spread to the Caucasus and Turkestan Turks was a little later. Young Ottomans Society (New Ottomans) came out in 1865 in the Ottoman Empire and this was followed by “Union and Progress Society” (Young Turk Movement) in 1889. With the development of journalism in the Ottoman Empire and other Turkish geographies, ideas of nationalism and freedom spread rapidly. In this way, communication among the intellectuals in these geographies increased. In this context, in the first quarter of the 20th century, these movements began to bear fruit in political and social terms. Here are some Azerbaijani poets and writers in this period came to Turkey for reasons mentioned above