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selves for it." In addition, Ökten states that the process
of this self-equipment can be put into action by reading,
travelling, thinking and arguing. The issues must
be dealt with in detail, and bottom currents must be
understood. A person who is seeking the answer to the
question why a specific person behaved in a particular
way, needs to be an icebreaker. If you introduce a hard
tone, you cannot break the ice and thus not talk. The
distinction between the west and us is that they made
the ground suitable for the detailed discussion of issues
as a result of big arguments and fights. Therefore, they
can discuss the issues very easily now.”
Generating Institutional Infrastructure
When future emerges, past must be erased, says Tevfik
Fikret in contrast to Okten who says that identity is at
past and cannot be erased. He advocates that the Ottaman
civilisation, which lost the form that wrapped its
identity must have replaced its rendered core into
an institutional infrastructure. That is why the
western society, in his own expressions,
achieved development. However,
Okten realizes that it is difficult
to support this institutional
infrastructure with
contemplation and art. In a society that was generated
A few generations ago, he points out, there were artist
such as Necip Fazýl, Nurettin Topcu, Osman Turan,
and Nihal Atsiz. By saying that people took them as
role models and asked them about things, he expresses
that the societal transformation is locked today, and
the lock will be unlocked by the help of a new formation.
He also notices that opinion leaders and other top
figures in a civilization are of great importance also for
other civilizations.
He examplifies this argument by telling something that
he ran into in a western university. "It attracted my attention
that they were analysing very important figures
in Islam." he says. When he asks the reason for this with
utmost curiosity, They reply to him telling that “the top
figures in a civilization must be analyzed in order to understand
the civilization.” As can be understood from
this, a civilization is kept alive via people. It is recreated
and rendered by them. The people who
initiate this process are the distinguished
people within the civilisation. Therefore,
to analyse a civilization, it is
a must to know its represantative
people.