The greatest social break, change and crisis periods are times of war. On the one hand, the threat of extinction and the pressure of losing the sacred, on the other hand, the effort to hold on to the area where it is located, necessitates the society in war to wage a cultural and psychological war as well as an actual one. For this reason, literary texts that both describe the process of the war and offer an alternative history accumulation for the post-war period are frequently encountered. War literature shows a structure that appeals to all social dynamics. To inform of the impending threat and to build up national resistance before the war; to give morale to the people during the war, to create a propaganda force; After the war, literary works created to restore the sense of self-confidence and to make people forget what happened are evaluated in war literature. In addition, while works are produced to feed the collective subconscious, strengthen national pride, and reinforce the identity in the geography, for a won war, the products of war literature are also used in order not to make the past existence forgotten as a result of a lost war, and to carry the historical and cultural assets in the geographies that were destroyed by the war to future generations. In this article, it has been examined how Aka Gündüz’s work called Muhterem Katil is used as a value attribution for Turkishness, Panturkism, national hatred and ethnocentrism in war literature.

Muhterem Katil, Aka Gündüz, Turkish theater, ethnocentrism, Panturkism.