A review of Turkish Resistance poetry

The present essay examines resistance poetry in Turkey and tries to introduce various Turkish literary trends that spread elements such as freedom, justice, anti-tyranny, nationalism, war, homeland, religion, etc. In this research, the issue of war has been discussed more due to its prevalence in the history and literature of Turkey, but along with it, freedom-loving, humanist and socialist streams have also been introduced. According to the studies carried out during the constitutional period, when the poets have not yet completely separated from the Ottoman literature, one can see the value-oriented literature that takes a heroic view of war and expands concepts such as religion, martyrdom, homeland, and victories and defeats. By the outbreak of World War II, Turkish literature changed and took on a socialist form. The changes resulting from the Second World War make the Turkish resistance literature change from a heroic and value-oriented approach to a critical and anti-war one in which topics such as society, people and politics are very prominent, poets have a humanist perspective and seek to spread anti-war poetry. Despite, such an approach in Turkish literature does not finish with the end of the WWII, but Turkish poets always go along with social developments by addressing the resistance themes.