Millennium of Turkish Literature : a concise History

poésie pure,
40; 
re-Turkifi cation of, 39; on rich versus 
poor, 44–45; on sacrifi ce, 67; as sat-
isfying both elite and popular tastes, 
31; tyranny opposed in, 45–46; 
younger poets of Republic on, 84
Divanü Lügâti’t Türk
(Kâşgarlı 
Mahmud), viii, 7
Doltaş, Dilek, 129
Doludizgin
(Kocagöz), 121
Don Kişot’tan Bugüne Roman
(Parla), 129
dramatic literature: in early twenty-fi rst 
century, 134; of Hikmet, 85; Otto-
man, 76–78; tragedy, 31, 78, 126; in 
Turkish Republic, 125–28; Turks 
adopt from Europe, 64. 
See also
comedy
Durbaş, Refik, 118
Dursun, Tarık, 121
Duru, Orhan, 123
Ecevit, Yıldız, 129
Edgü, Ferit, 116
Edib (Adıvar), Halide, viii, 76, 118
Edib Ahmed (12 c.), 8
efsane,
57
elegies, 6
Elegy to the Cat
(Me‘âlî), 45
50 Yılın Türk Tiyatrosu
(And), 126

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Eloğlu, Metin, 115
Emin Nihat (19 c.), 74
engaged literature, 102, 118–19
England, Ottoman literature infl uenced 
by, 64
Epic of Sheikh Bedreddin, Th
e
(
Şeyh Bed-
reddin Destanı
) (Hikmet), 87–90
epics: early, 4–6, 8–9; Ottoman prose, 32
“Epitaph I” (Kanık), 94–95
Erasmus, 19
Eray, Nazlı, 122
Erbil, Leylâ, 122
Erciyes, Cem, 129
Erdoğan, Aslı, 122
Erdoğan, Bekir Sıtkı, 118
Erduran, Refik, 126
Ergenekon
epic, 5–6
Erhan, Ahmet, 118
Erhat, Azra, 128
Erman, Nüzhet, 115
Eroğlu, Ebubekir, 118
Eroğlu, Mehmet, 122
Ersoy, Mehmet Âkif, 72–74
Ersöz, Cezmi, 124
Ertop, Konur, 128
Erzurumlu Emrah (19 c.), 29
esatir,
57
Esen, Nüket, 129
Esendal, Memduh Şevket, 122
Eşref (19 c.), 70
Evliya Çelebi (17 c.), 25, 32–33, 57
Eylül
(Mehmet Rauf), 75
Eyuboğlu, Bedri Rahmi, 113
Eyuboğlu, Sabahattin, 59, 128
“Faithless, Th
e” (Dağlarca), 112
“Farewell to Haluk” (Tevfik Fikret), 
69–70
“Fear” (Tanpınar), 91
Fecr-i Âti
(Dawn of Freedom) movement, 
71, 79
fıkra,
57
fi ction: as extension of poetry, 66; future 
of, 134–35; gains ascendancy in Otto-
man Empire, 64; Ottoman, 74–76; 
poetry eclipsed by, 133; short stories, 
58, 74, 120–21, 122, 134; in Turk-
ish Republic, 118–25; Yaşar Kemal 
dominates twentieth-century, viii–ix. 
See also
novels
Firdawsi, 56
“First New, Th
e” movement, 95, 128
Fisherman of Halicarnassus, Th
e 
(Halikarnas Balıkçısı) (Cevat Şakir), 
121
“Flower of Darkness, Th
e” (Anday), 136
folk literature, 55–61; Berk’s adaptations 
of, 102; dramas based on folk legends, 
127; early, 4–6, 7; essential features of 
Turkish folktales, 55; Ottoman, 25, 
26, 27–28, 29, 30–31; poetry, 4–6, 7, 
26, 29, 30–31, 71, 108–9, 133; Yunus 
Emre synthesizes Islam with, 16
“For Our Homeland” (Kanık), 95
“For the Fallen of Gallipoli” (Ersoy), 
72–73
“Fountain, Th
e” (Ahmet Haşim), 84
France: Berk infl uenced by poetry 
of, 102; French words in Turkish 
vocabulary, 134; modernist poetry, 
95, 96; Molière, 77–78; Ottoman 
literature infl uenced by, 64, 71, 78; in 
Tanpınar’s critical synthesis, 128
free verse, 87, 92, 95
Fuat, Memet, 106, 128
Fuzuli (16 c.), 34, 37–38, 40, 56
Galib, Şeyh (18 c.). 
See
Şeyh Galib
Gandhi, Mohandas, 12
Garip
(Kanık, Rifat, and Anday), 95, 97, 
99
gazel
, 18, 35, 49, 102
Gazi Giray (16 c.), 44–45
Germanus, Julius, 10

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Index
159
Gevherî (18 c.), 29
Gibb, E. J. W., 31, 83
God: as loved one in Ottoman poetry, 41, 
43; mystical theme of union with, 19; 
poems with barbs against, 26–27
“God and I” (Dağlarca), 112
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 11