ENVIRONMENTALIST TYPE REPRESENTATIONS IN MODERN TURKISH STORIES IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURE AND BELIEF

In literary narrative, characters, who undertake the task of representing a certain mentality, are one of the elements that the narrator consistently makes use of in this direction. Especially after the Industrial Revolution, life models that evolved into new and unconventional forms brought various innovations to the literary medium. Along with content, style and plot, changes in the philosophical perspective of the cast of characters are also noticeable. The current transformation has become especially evident in the field of Turkey as of 1950. As a matter of fact, it is possible to define the aforementioned time period as a period when Turkish society entered a stage of innovation in many respects and faltered in the face of different experiences. In this context, it is inevitable that the changes in daily life are reflected in the literary text. Therefore, in these conditions where ecological losses become visible along with identity confusion, there is an increase in the number of heroes who can be described as environmentalist types. Thus, a number of artists who wrote texts with an environmental concern aimed to establish an effective consciousness and awareness mechanism by assigning the task of carrying ideal values to environmentalist types. These characters can be active in the whole plot or only in certain parts of the plot depending on the text. In this study, based on the factors of culture and belief, it will be attempted to analyze the examples of environmentalist types in the modern Turkish story in the context of certain artists. Keywords: Turkish stories, environmentalist type, culture, belief, consciousness