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Item Open Access Bir ideoloji olarak Murathan Mungan şiiri(Bilkent University, 2002) Caner, FıratPoetry of Murathan Mungan as an Ideology Murathan Mungan (b. 1955), interprets “the ideological context of daily details” as one of the main themes of his literary works. There is an attempt of finding and manipulating what is always valid in the relationship he built with the Tradition. He pursues not the “past” in today, but the “today” in the past, because, the “today” in the past is the most convenient material for him to settle with his past. Mungan deals with the themes relating to Human Evolution and tries to make his readers confront themselves. He makes his readers confront themselves through criticisms which are direct at times and subtle at others. Mungan successfully deals with the issues concerning the imposition of political, economic and social formations to individuals and the psychology concerning how individuals absorb these. That is why the main topic of Mungan’s works is the crisis of the transition period between “not being able to be oneself” and “encountering the tragedy of not being able to”. Not being able to be oneself means dependence on an “other” and this will cause the individual to accept the role that has been imposed on oneself. The poetics of Mungan stands between the modern and the traditional, but closer to the traditional. But, beyond its “definite” status, the most important status for Mungan’s works is the status between two states of being. The threshold is very important in Mungan’s works, as it is in Chekhov’s.Item Open Access Depicting the other : Qizilbash image in the 16th century Ottoman historiography(Bilkent University, 2013) Arslantaş, YasinThis study examines the early roots of the Ottoman perception of Qizilbash, both the Safavids, rising as a new power in Iran at the turn of the 16th century, and their Turcoman collaborators in Anatolia. The previous literature showing the image of the Qizilbash in the eyes of Ottoman dynasty employed mostly archival sources, such as fatwa collections and mühimme registers. In contrast, by focusing on the historiographical narrations of the years of 1509–1514, the present study looks at the literary works of 16th century chroniclers, particularly Selimnâme literature, and their role in building the Ottoman religio-political discourse on the Qizilbash with an attempt at showing their propagandist (or Selimist) nature. The present study argues that this discourse helped the dynasty to justify the act of war against them. After giving a brief background of the early Ottoman history with an emphasis on the shifting position of nomadic-tribal Turcomans, the study probes how a chosen sample of Ottoman histories from the 16th century depicted the Qizilbash image and iv how they identified the “self” through depiction of the “other.” This thesis argues that religio-political discourses created in the 16th century led the Ottoman state to espouse a more Sunni-minded imperial ideology, and to identify the social and religious status of the Qizilbash.