Between folk tales and society there exists a complex relationship, the nature of which is understood in different ways from one dicipline to another. Furthermore, the apparent relationship of folk tales to society shifts ...

Fahri Celâlettin Göktulga (1895-1975) is a short story writer of a transitional period that started in the II. Meşrutiyet period (Constitutional Monarchy, 1908) and lasted until the end of the one-party era (1950). ...

Abdülhak Hamit Tarhan (1852-1937) is the author of a large and comprehensive volume of works is one of the most prolific authors in Turkish Literature whose works range from poetry to drama. It can be easily deducted through ...

Tâcî-zâde Cafer Çelebi, the later “nişancı” of Bayezid II, fourty years after the conquest of Istanbul by Ottomans, wrote a mesnevi called Heves-nâme (The Book of Zeal). In his mesnevi, he posed a direct criticism of ...

Critics have often pointed out that a conception of Time occupies an important place in the poetry of Melih Cevdet Anday (1915-2002), but a comprehensive study has not been undertaken on this subject until the present ...

Kemal Tahir (1910-1973) is one of the few writers who have remained outside of general tendencies relating to art and thought in a country where literature and ideas are dominated by imitation rather than authenticity. ...

Adnan Benk (1922-1998), a famous critic in modern Turkish literature, started writing reviews in 1947, after graduating from the Department of Roman Languages and Literatures at İstanbul University in 1946. He published ...

Cemal Süreya (1931-1990), one of Turkey’s major poets, explores the female body in his works. The bodies in Süreya’s poetry can be studied under three headings: Poems about the “other body” where the narrator is constructed ...

Latife Tekin (b. 1957) is an influential writer whose early works had a deep impact on Turkish literature during the 1980s. She focuses on the lives of the poor and of people who migrated from villages to huge urban ...