Millennium of Turkish Literature : a concise History

Th
e Gigolo Murder,
Mehmet Murat Somer; Kenneth Dakan, trans. 
(London: Serpent’s Tail).
2009 
İkinci Yeni: Th
e Turkish Avant-Garde,
George Messo, ed. and trans. 
(Exeter, U.K.: Shearsman).

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Suggested Reading
2009 
Th
e Kiss Murder,
Mehmet Murat Somer; Kenneth Dakan, trans. 
(London: Serpent’s Tail).
2009 
Many and Many a Year Ago,
Selçuk Altun; Cliff ord Endres and Sel-
han Endres, trans. (London: Telegram).
2009 
Th
e Museum of Innocence,
Orhan Pamuk; Maureen Freely, trans. 
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf).
2009 
Popular Turkish Love Lyrics and Folk Legends,
Talat S. Halman (Syra-
cuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press, 2009).
2010 
Th
e Forty Rules of Love,
Elif Şafak (New York: Viking).

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i n de x
Abdülhak Hâmit (Tarhan), 64, 67–68, 
78, 83–84
Abdülhamid, Sultan, 68–69, 71
adaptations, 64
Adıvar, Halide Edib, 76, 118
Aesop, 55
aestheticism, 106
“Aft er Death” (Tarancı), 93
Ağaoğlu, Adalet, 123
Ahmed I, Sultan, 43
Ahmedî (15 c.), 36
Ahmed-i Dâi (14–15 c.), 36
Ahmed Pasha (15 c.), 36
Ahmet Haşim, 84
Ahmet Mithat Efendi, 74, 75, 77
Ahmet Vefik Pasha, 77
Ahmet Yesevi (12 c.), 8
Akatlı, Füsun, 129
Akbal, Oktay, 123
Akçam, Dursun, 121
Akın, Gülten, 116
Aksal, Sabahattin Kudret, 114
Alangu, Tahir, 128
Alatlı, Alev, 122
Alevi-Bektaşi movement, 26
Âli (16 c.), 32
Âli Bey, 77
Ali Haydar (19–20 c.), 77
Ali Şîr Nevâî (15 c.), 43
Altan, Ahmet, 122
Altan, Çetin, 121
Altıok, Metin, 117
Anar, İhsan Oktay, 122
Anatolia: Islamization in, 8; Konya, 12, 
15; mysticism takes root in, 16; oral 
literature of, 23, 55–56; poverty of vil-
lages in, 119; Turks conquer, 9
“Ancient Sea Folk” (İlhan), 105–6
And, Metin, 126–27
Andaç, Feridun, 129
Anday, Melih Cevdet, 94, 97, 99–100, 
126, 136
Andelibî (15 c.), 46
Andersen, Hans Christian, 59
“Anguish” (Kısakürek), 91–92
anlamsız şiir,
108
Apaydın, Talip, 121
Aprin Çor Tigin (6 c.), 4
Araba Sevdası
(Recaizade Ekrem), 75
Arabic language: 
Divan
literature infl u-
enced by, 31, 34–35, 39; percentage 
of words in Turkish vocabulary, 
134; pure Turkish movement and, 
81; script, 1, 81; Turkish intellectu-
als absorb, 2; Turks develop taste for 
literature in, 56; Westernization and 
reaction against, 64, 71
Aral, İnci, 122
Arel, Bülent, 126
Arıburnu, Orhon Murat, 118
“art for art’s sake,” 8, 68, 75
aruz,
18, 34–35, 39, 64, 71
Asaf, Özdemir, 114
Asena, Orhan, 126
âşık,
27
Âşıkane
(Berk), 102

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Index
Âşık Çelebi (16 c.), 33
Âşık Ömer (18 c.), 29
Âşıkpaşazade (16 c.), 32
Âşık Veysel (19–20 c.), 108–9
Aşk-ı Memnu
(Uşaklıgil), 75
Ataç, Nurullah, 128
Atasü, Erendiz, 122
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal, 81, 82, 85
Atay, Cahit, 126
Atay, Oğuz, 122
Atebet-ül Hakayık
(Edib Ahmed), 8
Atılgan, Yusuf, 122
Attar, Farid al-Din, 56
Autobiography of a Turkish Girl, Th
e
(
Çalıkuşu
) (Güntekin), 76
Ayak Bacak Fabrikası
(Çağan), 126
Ayhan, Ece, 108
Ayvazoğlu, Beşir, 129
Aziz Efendi (18 c.), 33, 57
Bahaüddin Veled, 12