Intellectuals Joining The Çanakkale Battles in Uzun Beyaz Bulut-Gelibolu and Çanakkale Mahşeri

Abstract

Çanakkale Battles occupy an İnıportant place in Near Age Turkish History. During these Battles, thousands of people and soldiers lost their lifers, considerable members of w hi ch were intellectuals. The battles have been handled in many stories, novels, poems and plays. Mehmet Niyazi in his Çanakkale Mahşeri and Buket Uzuner in her Uzun Beyaz Bulut-Gelibolu treat the same subject. The focus in both novels is on the intellectual fıgures who joins the army voluntarily. In Çanakkale Mahşeri the intellectuals are mostly doctors and teachers and in Uzun Beyaz Bulut-Gelibolu they are lawyers. Although with no military background, they fıght as brave and skillfully as the other soldiers.