ARTS: Artuklu Sanat ve Beşeri Bilimler Dergisi

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The Balkans have an important place in the literary world of Necati Cumalı. The author, born in 1921 in Florina, defines the past and his roots through this geography. In Macedonia 1991 which intertwined with the biographical life story of the author, the conflicts and separations experienced as a result of the nation building processes of different nation in the Balkans are told. With the end of the power of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, which had dominated there for centuries, the oppression and persecution of the Turks, who knew the Balkans as their homeland, were included in the stories. As a result of the territorial losses in the Balkans, Turks living in this geography had to bid farewell to the Balkans, where they were born and where they knew their homeland.
Cultural memory is the writing of history by those who witnessed it. The Balkans have a founding importance in the cultural memory of the Turks who have known the Balkan lands as their homeland for hundreds of years. In the study, the stories in Macedonia 1900 were examined and the reflections of the construction of cultural memory were revealed. In this study, reflections of cultural memory construction, the place of the Balkans that keep in memories of people as a place of cultural memory, the conflicts experienced in the process of establishing states of different nations and the incidents such as village invasion, rape, murder, and migration on the cultural memory are discussed.