Murat Serto？lu’s Contribution to Popular Literature as a “Writing Machine” of Turkish Literature in the Republican Period

Popular novels in Turkish literature were often despised because of their lack of literary value, and although they were widely read novels, they were ignored in academia. Today this prejudice is gradually being broken, and popular novels have also been studied from various perspectives. In Tanzimat and Me？rutiyet periods when literacy rate is low, popular novels have increased the literacy rate. In addition, evoking the historical values and hereby giving actual messages, historical popular novels played an important role in the awakening of national consciousness. National tendency in society has become the basic ideology of the Republic of Turkey. Popular historical novels serve to establish national values hereupon. Murat Serto？lu, one of the popular historical novelists, has this aim in his novels. In this study, the place of Murat Serto？lu in popular literature will be examined