Ahmet Mithat Efendi; He is an enlightened writer with a strong oratory who dominates all fields such as journalist, story and novel writer, philosopher of history and contributes to the enlightenment of the society he is in, transferring his knowledge and experience to all segments of society. He wrote about the renewal movement that started with the Tanzimat in his works and he became a guide by writing his writings for information purposes. He read a lot of French books, gained knowledge about literary movements and transferred them to his works with his own interpretation. Ahmet Mithat Efendi is the leading name in the works of the Tanzimat Period. He conveyed his existing experiences both in his novels and his works such as Müşahedat, Taffüf, Mesail-i Muğlaka, Ahmet Mithat Efendi, Edebiyat Yazıları 1 and 2, he became one of the most enlightened writers of Turkish novelism, and he deserved to be known as a novelist because he was mostly engaged in novels among prose genres. Ahmet Mithat Müşahedat criticized Emile Zola in his introduction titled 'Hasbihâl with Kâriîn' in his work titled Müşahedat and described the situation of Emile Zola, who wrote with a naturalist perspective of French society, from a critical point of view. Mithat Efendi wrote almost all his works to guide and educate people. And for this reason, according to him, transferring the events existing in the society as they are, instead of educating people, he was worried about leading them down the wrong path and therefore he opposed the Turkish society to read Emile Zola.
Ahmet Mithat is a socialist and devoted writer. His aim to educate the public has led him to address the problems of the people. In this respect, he is in a way the sociologist of his period. Naturalism is established through the