THEATER TRAVELS AS AN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIP AND PROPAGANDA VEHICLE OF THE EARLY REPUBLICAN ERA IN TURKEY

In this study as a international relationship and propaganda vehicle theater trip and plays which was only held in 1938 to Baghdad by the young Republic of Turkey as an effort and process of establishing a nation-state are discussed. The basic characteristics of the Republic of Turkey's new cultural policy founded in the interwar period as a modern nation-state on the basis of independent, secular, western and capitalist institutions and how the young Republic tried to show its new political regime and cultural policy to its neighboring states and ideological aspect of this efforts to interstate relations are analyzed