Abstract

Reşat Nuri Güntekin’s letters are a significant source of information regarding the establishment of the Turkish Republic among scholars. Güntekin was a key person involved in the foundation of the Turkish Republic together with other important names, such as Atatürk and Hasan Âli Yücel. In this work, we visualize the relationships and implicit networks among these persons at an important period of Turkey’s establishment. In addition, we determine important events described in the letters. Seventy-three geographic points are indicated in the world map and the map of Turkey. Using content and proximity-based analyses, we further establish the exact dates of the letters.

Keywords: Social network analysis, Reşat Nuri Güntekin, letters, Ottoman Turkish

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Copyright (c) 2017 The author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.

How to Cite

Akça, S., & Akbulut, M. (2017). A Content-Based Social Network Analysis of Reşat Nuri Güntekin’s Letters*. Information World, 18(1), 143-147. https://doi.org/10.15612/BD.2017.566