“Ankara” in the National Struggle Cinema

To keep the Turkish National Struggle, which has an exceptional value as a source of belief for all oppressed communities as well as the self-confidence it has created in the Turkish nation with its success, alive in the memories with "cinema", work was started during the National Struggle period, and the teams sent to Anatolia filmed the resistance on the front lines, the factors that led to victory and many documentary experiences. Mustafa Kemal, who believed that fictional films on the theme of the National Struggle should be made alongside documentary films, gladly agreed to appear in front of the camera to "prove to the Turkish youth how this struggle was won". In cinema, which functions as propaganda as well as an artistic language and a form of transmission, certain cities, as well as the names that shaped this epic struggle around the ideal of "independence", are different in their roles has been addressed in several ways. In the study, the first years of cinema in Türkiye are mentioned and the films of the National Struggle as a genre in Turkish cinema are analyzed in the categories of documentary, fiction, and television films. In this study, in which nearly 100 films with the theme of the War of Independence are reviewed, the place of the city of "Ankara" in the cinema of the War of Independence is exemplified by three productions titled "On the Roads of Victory/Istiklâl, A Nation Awakens, and Kalpaklılar". In many productions of the cinema of the War of Independence, the spatialization of "Ankara" Beyond its presence, Mustafa Kemal, the Turkish Grand National Assembly, and the intellectuals and military "symbolic" character, which is identified with the presence of leaders, and for this reason, the National It has been determined that it is an indispensable element of struggle-themed films.

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