Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil, whose novels are the subject of many researches even today, is one of the important figures of his era with the books he wrote on subjects such as Western lifestyle and cultural turn. Especially the issue of cultural turn is extremely valuable as it is still being discussed today. Uşaklıgil, who dealt with this issue in different ways in his novels, also showed clearly what kind of changes the Western lifestyle caused in Ottoman society around certain thinking practices. Within the scope of this article, Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil’s novel Kırık Hayatlar will be evaluated around the subject of “cultural turn”, and the meanings of this concept in the first period of the 20th century will be discussed.