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Istanbul Elefteria
Yılmaz in this novel retraces through the narration of a love story, one of the darkest pages in the history of Turkey: the attacks on the properties of the Greek community of Istanbul but also of the Armenian and Jewish ones. These events, also known as the Istanbul pogrom, were yet another act for the removal of the Greek minority from the country, before the expulsions of the 1960s.
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Last Train to Istanbul
Ayşe Kulin is a Turkish contemporary novelist and columnist. Kulin graduated in literature from the American College for Girls in Arnavutköy. She released a collection of short stories titled Güneşe Dön Yüzünü in 1984. A short story from this called Gülizar was made into a film titled Kırık Bebek in 1986, for which she won a screenplay award from the Turkish culture ministry. Kulin worked as a screen writer, cinematographer and producer for many films, television series and advertisements. In 1986, she won the Best Cinematographer Award from the Theatre Writers association for her work in the television series Ayaşlı ve Kiracıları.
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Tutunamayanlar (The Losers)
This novel has been selected by the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO
The young engineer Turgut Özben investigates the reasons behind his close friend Selim Işik’s suicide. People close to Selim Işik pool their knowledge to shed light on the unknown aspects of his life. In his last days, Selim was assembling an “encyclopedia of losers” wherein he had reserved an entry for himself. The encyclopedia proves helpful in revealing self-knowledge to Turgut Özben. In the course of his investigation: he too is a loser, or a perennial nobody; to date he has been going through the motions of habit and ritual. He makes a clean break, leaves home, and boards a train never to be seen again.