Millennium of Turkish Literature : a concise History

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dramatic literature; fi ction; 
folk literature; literary criticism; oral 
literature; Ottoman literature; poetry
Turkish Republic, 81–131; establish-
ment of, 81, 85; future of literature 
in, 133–35; modern literature gains 
ascendency in, viii

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Index
Turks: Anatolia conquered by, 9; basic cul-
tural traits of, 1; continuity of Turkish 
culture, 2; conversion to Islam, 1, 
4, 9–10, 56, 57; migration of, 3, 8–9; 
religions of, 1, 5; scripts used by, 1
Tutunamayanlar
(Atay), 122
tuyuğ,
35
Türkali, Vedat, 121
Türkeş, Ömer, 129
türki-i basit
(Simple Turkish) movement, 
39
türkü,
27
“Two Solitary Trees” (Dıranas), 91
Usûlî (16 c.), 46
Uşaklı, Ömer Bedrettin, 118
Uşaklıgil, Halit Ziya, 75
Uyar, Tomris, 122
Uyar, Turgut, 102–4
Uyghur Turkish language, vii, 1, 4, 6
Uygur, Nermi, 129
Uzuner, Buket, 122
Ümit, Ahmet, 124
vahdet-i vücut,
19–20
Vakaayi-i Acibe ve Havadis-i Kefşger 
Ahmed
, 76
Valéry, Paul, 100
“Vanish” (Cansever), 104–5
varsağı,
27
Vatan yahut Silistre
(Namık Kemal), 77
Vehbi (18 c.), 57
verse. 
See
poetry
vers libre,
95
Veysî (17 c.), 32
Village in Anatolia, A
(
Bizim Köy
) 
(Makal), 118–19
Village Novel, 119–20
village plays, 126, 127
“Village Without Rain” (Dağlarca), 111, 
113
War of Liberation, 110, 118, 121
Wedding of the Poet, Th
e
(
Şair Evlenmesi
) 
(Şinasi), 76–77
Westernization, 63–64, 73, 75, 83
Westöstlicher Divan
(Goethe), 11
Whirling (Mevlevi) Dervishes, 12, 15, 
26, 51–53
White Castle, Th
e
(
Beyaz Kale) 
(Pamuk), 
125
Wisdom of Royal Glory
(
Kutadgu Bilig
) 
(Yusuf Has Hâcib), viii, 2–3, 7
women: Halide Edib Adıvar, 76, 118; 
Ottoman poetry by, 48–50
Yağcı, Öner, 122
Yahya of Taşlıca (16 c.), 38, 44
“Yalan” (Anday), 97
Yavuz, Hilmi, 103
Yeni Hayat
(
Th
e New Life
) (Pamuk), 125
Yetkin, Suut Kemal, 128
Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi (18 c.), 33
Yorgun Savaşçı
(Tahir), 121
Yunus Emre, 16–23; on achieving 
divinity, 22; on four holy books, 
18; on God’s revelation in man, 20; 
humanistic mystic outlook of, viii, 
7, 16–17, 20; “International Yunus 
Emre Year” (1991), 22–23; on love as 
supreme attribute, 17, 18–19; mystic 
folk poetry of, 7; naturalism and 
ecumenism of, 17–18; on orthodox 
religion, 21–22; Rifat compared with, 
97; Rumi’s infl uence on, 16; on ser-
vice to society, 20–21; stylistic virtues 
of, 18; Sufi infl uences on, 18; union 
with God as theme in, 19; 
vahdet-i 

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vücut
as fundamental tenet of, 19–20; 
vernacular used by, 18
Yurdakul, Mehmet Emin, 71, 72, 84
Yusuf Has Hâcib (11 c.), 2–3
Yücel, Can, 115
Yücel, Tahsin, 122, 123
zahid,
47
Zarifoğlu, Cahit, 116
Zehra
(Nabizade Nâzım), 75
Zeyneb (15 c.), 48
Ziya Pasha (19 c.), 64, 65, 67
Zweig, Paul, 90

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bio gr a phic a l n o t e s
Ta l at S . H a l m a n is a critic, a scholar, and a leading translator of Turkish lit-
erature into English. His books in English include