Abstract
The scouting movement, which emerged in England at the beginning of the 20th century, spread rapidly since it had an educational content that could meet the need for the participation of all the people in the war, while the European countries were moving towards a showdown, and it started to be implemented in the Ottoman Empire in a short time. Scouting represent a movement that takes the child/young person who has not reached the age of military service through educational processes such as organized movement, leadership, courage, survival and it can create young people who are free from mental and physical shyness and have the ability to control their fears and emotions. Its practice in the Ottoman Empire would initially begin as a part of schooling, and when it was comprehended that its understanding of education was strong enough to establish the sufficient infrastructure for the youth policies of the period, it would continue under the direct control of the state. In this state-controlled movement, scouting was first practiced with its own existence, but soon it will become a part of wider projects and even face the danger of being dissolved in these projects. The defeat in the First World War will also be the defeat of the youth policies in the Ottoman Empire, and the Turkish scouting will try to get rid of the shadow of the occupation states and the scout groups of the minorities while trying to return to its old formation in this environment. However, despite everything, Turkish scouting was able to stand up until 1923 and a scout group emerged ready to welcome the Republic. This text examines all these processes and the pains of the establishment period of scouting. Because the basis of the development in the republican years was prepared in the last period of the Ottoman Empire in almost all aspects.
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