Ahmet Oktay, Cumhuriyet devri Türk edebiyatında şiirleriyle olduğu kadar, şiir ve

Ahmet Oktay is an author, who is remarkable with his poems in the Turkish literature,as well as his critiques on poetry, novel and who is also known with his studies, reviewson popular culture, social change and Turkis press. Oktay works in several newspapersand in TRT; in the meantime he witnesses the development process of Turkish press; hemakes also evaluations with regard to the past and future of this process.In this study, the reflected dimensions of political polarisation in the Turkish societyduring 1960s on Turkish press will be tried to be examined, by looking at Ahmet Oktay’sbook Toplumsal Değişme ve Basın. This period, which witnessed many conflicts of Turkishpolitical life will be tried to be revealed through Ahmet Oktay’s critical research andhis critical approach.