Yesevî dervishes disseminated in Anatolia a heterodox branch of folk Islam whose origins can be traced back to Ahmet Yesevî. This branch was more readily accepted among the Turkomans living in frontier regions due to ...

Halide Edib-Adıvar, who is acknowledged to be the first woman novelist of Turkey although she has Fatma Aliye and Emine Semiye as her predecessors, is accepted to be an important figure in Turkish feminism and modernism. ...

Nahid Sırrı Örik stands apart from other writers in the Republican Era through his ability to portray protagonists’ evil. Örik began to publish in 1928, writing critiques, travel memoirs, plays, stories, and novels. His ...

The Republic of Turkey has begun to go through a process of modernization especially rapidly since the 1960s. The symptoms of this process have shown themselves most evidently in the everyday life of urban areas. Since ...

The 18th century is a period open to new developments and advances in Ottoman poetry and miniature art. Due to failures in political life, the state turned to the West and encountered a “New World,” thereby paving the ...

The Critique of Gender in Murathan Mungan’s Modern Tales Murathan Mungan (b. 1955), a prominent Turkish author of the late twentieth century, analyzes and interprets legends, myths, folk tales, and cultural archetypes ...

One of the changes that occurred during the transition from orality to literacy was the rise of new styles of expression in literature. As a new genre the short story conributed to literacy as well. The role of modernization ...