@article{2015,title={PICTURE OF THE WEST AND PARIS-LONDON ENCOUNTERS IN TURKISH LITERATURE},abstractNode={Eastern and Western cultures for centuries to get to know each other, trying to figure appears as two different worlds. Ottoman intellectuals process that began before the proclamation of the Tanzimat and artists, seeing himself over the West, lived by endeavoring to understand. West's other as the prevalence of asthma East, the West, this time the other is perceived.This effort to explain and understand the Paris and London, the West's most familiar and geographic interests us as cultural venues. In particular, the text of the Tanzimat period France-Paris, the UK-based London more known and described this situation as a striking geography, during the Republic have also continued for some time. Both capitals from central London, although numbers for Europe's many; who lived on the island and the culture of a city which differ from the continent's cultural and social structure. Author with the effect of these differences / poets they saw before describing in London, a familiar places in; Paris and comparisons have done; Both the city's geography, architecture, daily life, culture and people of the city has become the subject of this comparison. Are attempts to the common Western image to reveal differences in this comparison has also been reflected in the text. In particular, these comparisons are often made in writing expressed trip starting from personal convictions literary though, they draw attention to the historical and sociological value. In this article, the Tanzimat period to the present, based on the selected text, most of the first impression of authors who see the European continent, works in Paris and London comparisons and prominent Western image of these comparative expression will be evaluated. Starting with the Tanzimat period to the present text, although many have described as an independent Paris and London; Based on our articles identified from the selected works and assessments will be made.},author={Sema ÇETİN BAYCANLAR},year={2015},journal={International Journal of Language Academy}}