The story flow, which is loosely reminiscent of the double-layered structure of One Thousand and One Nights (always containing another story within one story), is a story line that once aspired to a modern life, its own Anatolian [...]

It is known to those who are curious that Oğuz Atay was planning a novel called The Spirit of Turkey. We don't know exactly what happened. I wonder what the "Spirit of Turkey" is, from its imperial reflexes to its authentic depressives? We don't know this beyond Demirkubuz's films, “beautiful and lonely […]

Dedicated “to all the hanged and to my elder sister,” the work is as much autobiographical as it is historical, revolving around the 1980 military coup, the old mythological tale of a particular fruit-bearing tree (the quack quack tree).