@article{2017,title={SAFİYE EROL’S NOVELS AND HER CONSTRUCTION OF INTELLECTUAL IDENTITY},abstractNode={Safiye Erol holds a special, distinctive place among the Republican Period Turkish novelists. Kadiköy’ün Romanı, Ülker Fırtınası, Ciğerdelen and Dineyri Papazı are her novel contributions to Turkish literature. Erol gives the intellectuals a big responsibility in overcoming the dilemmas experienced in the process of moving from the imperial period to the republican period. According to her, there are several duties of the new intellectuals in the newly founded country. First of all, intellectuals need to pioneer the development of the country. The intellectuals in Erol’s novels have certain characteristics in common. The most notable character trait in the defined identities of the intellectuals in her novels is the strong attachment to their national values. All these protagonists that receive education in various fields in the West are idealists and intellectuals that look to the future with hope. Their idealism is related to the development, in every sense, of the geography they live in. In all four novels, the individual growth of emotionally tattered (due to love) protagonists are addressed. The individual love at the beginning of the novels is seen to expand into a love for the society and absolute beauty later. These protagonists, matured through love, have one ideal at the end of their development: To serve the society. In this study, the aim is to identify the characteristics of the identity of the intellectuals that Safiye Erol puts forward through her novels, and to draw comparisons between the own identity of the novelist and the proposed identity in the novels.},author={Süreyya DOĞAN},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Social Sciences}}