Author/Authors :
KELEŞ, Nejdet Pamukkale Üniversitesi - Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi - Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü, Turkey
Abstract :
In this study through the subfield of image of the comparative literary studies, altering and stable images of Turkish people for Germans (Austria and Prussia- Germany) before and after the World War I will be elucidated. Before the World War I the general idea about Turkish people is that Turks are barbar, savage, infidel and lustful, not based on any systematic idea. On the eve and during the World War I, these images were transformed into positive through the political compulsions and interpretations in the aim of political propaganda. Through political declarations of German palace and cabinet, press, trip-memoir publications and postcards, this positive Turkish image is started to be conveyed to the public. During the war, to recognize the Turks and Turkish soldiers closely; new, natural and positive images are produced. When the war started to be lost and in the post war period, Turkish image was turned into to the old days with much negative conception that had been dominant before the war.
