InthesameyearHüseyinRahmiApak,themanwhohadorganizedCarlDiem’s
visittoTurkey,receivedthereportofamuch-traveledpartymemberwhohad
studiedtheyouthorganizationsinmorethan 20 countries.Thelatterwerepar-
tiallya‘who’swho’ofthecontemporarymainauthoritariancountries.NailiMer-
anʼsrealizationofthecontemporaryZeitgeistwasessentiallyexpressedinthe
followingsentence:
“Themainpurposeofthepartyhastobetoresignoneselfwiththepeople,toinstillinthem
cultureandteachthemtheRepublican,revolutionary,nationalistbasics.Theresulthasto
betoguaranteeaunitythatismarchingtowardsthesameobjectiveineverycornerofthe
Turkishcountry,standingonasolidbasis[...].”²⁴⁹TogetherwithDiem’sstudy,ApakusedNailiMeranʼsbookletforhisownreport.
AsthisreportalsocontainedaninternalTurkishperspective,inadditionto
Diem’sexternalreview,itdeservesfurtheranalysis.²⁵⁰EventhoughApak’sreport
Figure8:ʻAtatürkArmyandAtatürkYouthʼ:TheTurkishBoyScouts(leftbelow),togetherwith
thearmedforcesandthesportsmen,asoneelementofthemobilisatorynationalself-image,
unitedunderpresidentAtatürk.Photographcollageinacivilianperiodicalontheoccasionof
the 1936 nationalday.
NailiMeran,Türkiye’deBedenTerbiyesi,RekreasyonveSportProgramlarıNeOlmalıdır[How
PhysicalEducation,RecreationandSportProgrammesinTurkeyhavetobe(done)](N.p.,n.d.,c.
November 19 37),BCA 490100 K1107D 43 Sira1,3.
TekirdağSaylaviandRahmiApak,GençlikTeşkilatıHakkındaRapor[AReportRegarding
theYouthOrganization](Anakara:UlusBasımevi, 19 37).
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