Sociologist and intellectual history writer Niyazi Berkes was born on October 21, 1908 in Nicosia. He graduated from Philosophy Department of Istanbul Darulfunun (University) in academic year of 1931-32. Between 1935 and 1939, he wrote articles for such magazines as Felsefe ve İçtimaiyat Mecmuası, Siyasi İlimler Mecmuası and Siyasal Bilgiler. He was assigned as research assistant to Philosophy Institute of the Faculty of Language, History and Geography in 1939. During those years a significant increase and diversification took place in writing activities of Niyazi Berkes and topics on which he writes. Through sociological studies he engaged in villages of Ankara during 1940s, he attempted to analyze social change phenomenon in villages. With these studies he drew the conclusion that possibility of the radical changes for Turkish Revolution depends on radical changing of conditions of social and economic life. In Yurt ve Dünya magazine which was published between 1941 and 1944, he usually wrote articles about racism, fascism and capitalism. Another issue he mainly dealt with in Yurt and Dünya magazines is modernization steps initiated in Ottoman State. In this sense, he discussed İbrahim Müteferrika, Namık Kemal and Ziya Gökalp in the aspect of how they understood topics of the West, civilization, secularism, and relations between the religion and the state. His writings, which are based on these topics, show that he developed an interestein history, especially the history of thought, rather than sociology and he thought that the fundamental differences between the Turkic and European peoples’ history is important. Around the 40’s, Berkes’ tendency to research the religion-state relations in Eastern Societies, in particular that of Ottoman Society, throughout the history increased and lasted for his whole life, in an ever growing manner.