Ziya Gökalp’in Şiirlerinde Mitolojik Coğrafya

Ziya Gökalp sees literature as the functional branch of hars, which has an important place in the world of thought. The difficulties that the Turkish nation faced in the years he lived affected him, like many intellectuals of his time, and he sought a horizon that would keep our nation alive under all circumstances. He tries to establish a new utopia with the mythological heritage with the metaphors of Turan, Kızılelma and Ötüken, which he carried from his ancestral homeland Central Asia to the Turkishness of Turkey. This perspective expands the geography of Gökalp's poetry and is instrumental in opening a new field of inspiration for the literature of his period. In this research, it was tried to find the boundaries of the mythological geography that motivated the poet's inspiration based on the place names in Ziya Gökalp's poems. As a result of this study, which takes into account whether there is a meaningful relationship between the place of the events mentioned as time in his poe