RE-READING AND RE-UNDERSTANDING AKIF, WHO COMPOSEDE THE COMPROMISE DOCUMENT OF TURKEY AGAINST EHL-I SALIB, IN THE LIGHTS OF RECENT GLOBAL ATTACKS - EHL？ SAL？B’E KAR？I TüRK？YE'N？N MUTABAKAT METN？N？ YAZAN AK？F’？, KüRESEL TAARRUZLARIN ARTTI？I GüNüMüZDE, YEN？DEN OKUMAK/ANLAMAK

Every vision of the future necessicates a consideration of the past - so much so that historical writing about social and national matters are paradoxically deemed important in terms of their reinterpretation of the past by taking the future into account. The famous metaphor “a future rooted in the past” of Yahya Kemal, in this respect, is remarkable. Taking thoughts of ？smet ？zel expressed under “？stiklal Mar？？ Derne？i” as a starting point, a continiuous intellectual line is traced back through Nurettin Top？u to Mehmet Akif Ersoy in this work. While Mehmet Akif uses the metaphor “single-fanged monster” for his criticism of the modern world, this criticism, within the frame of “world system” and context of global pressures against the nation states, evolves into a more systematic anti-imperialist notion in the eyes of Nurettin Top？u and ？smet ？zel. Attributed to “the heroic army” and being a source of motivation for the ultimate victory achieved in the Turkish War of Independence, the ？stiklal Mar？？ is thought to be encapsulating intellectual seeds that would challengeange the global attacks the Turkish nation have gone through lately. For the social cohesion of the Turkish nation, the ？stiklal Mar？？ is proposed to be reconsidered as the mainstay or “comprise document.