Akademik Məlumat İdarəetmə Sistemi
XVIII INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE, vol.1, pp.64-66, 2025 (Conference Book)
The article analyzes the formation of the concept of national identity in 20th-century Turkic literature, focusing on the works of Bakhtiyar Vahabzade and Yahya Kemal Beyatlı. Despite living in different socio-political contexts, both poets placed national identity at the core of their creative vision. Yahya Kemal defines national identity through cultural heritage, aesthetic values, and historical memory, expressing the pain of lost lands in poems such as "Üsküp". Bakhtiyar Vahabzade, on the other hand, associates national identity with struggle and moral resistance, calling his people to awakening and unity. The shared themes in their works — national consciousness, the homeland that lives in memory, and the preservation of cultural identity — symbolize the spiritual unity of the Turkic world.