Mythology with its various possibilities of the interpretation is a suitable device for the influencing national feelings and that is why it is often used in the period of a national identity building. This paper analyses the interpretation of mythology in the poetry of two founders of Turkish nationalistic literature and the contributors to the new Turkish identity Ziya Gökalp and Mehmet Emin Yurdakul.
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