Bir ‘meçhul asker’ kurgusu: Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu’nun “Ses Duyan Kız” hikâyesi

In order to ensure the continuity of national identity in nationalisms, partnerships that exist in time and place are often brought to the fore. In this context, national monuments, national legends, national holidays, commemoration ceremonies, collective narratives, rituals provide important contributions to the internalization process of national identity by keeping the common memory alive. One of these collective areas, which reinforces the ties between the nation and common history, common experience, belonging and territory is the monuments or graves of unknown soldiers. Because of the story of the total struggle on the way to becoming a nation, the unknown soldier monuments gather around their national images. The unknownness of all kinds of sociological data about the unknown soldier, the story of the unknown soldier and the social, political, cultural and historical codes of the national identity make it easier to identify. Milli Savas Hikayeleri of Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, “Ses Duyan Kiz” tells the story of a young girl who left her village to fight the enemy soldiers and become ‘a national legend’ hero. In this study, the functions undertaken by the image of the unknown soldier in the process of building national identity will be discussed. The idea that Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu formed an image of an unknown soldier in the story of “Ses Duyan Kiz” will be discussed in order to arouse the idea of total war and contribute to the search for national narrative.