[1][2][3] The philosophy of Idealism was largely influenced by the ideas of Ziya Gökalp, a Turkish sociologist, writer, and poet.
Gökalp believed that the Turkish people needed to create a new national identity that was distinct from their Ottoman past and grounded in their own cultural, historical, and linguistic traditions.
Although the Turkism movement was a national policy in the state levels during the time of Atatürk, it begins with this event that it became a mass idea.
[citation needed] Alparslan Türkeş formed Idealism as an Islamist version of Atsızism.
[9] Nihal Atsız hated Idealism and viewed it as a corruption of his own teachings, and criticised Türkeş multiple times for it.