Literature In Turkey Research Articles

On the History of Turkish Feminism

AbstractThe paper deals with the several aspects of the history of Feminism in the Ottoman Empire. It elucidates the early stages of the formation of the Feministic ideas and tendencies in the Turkish society at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Particular attention is paid to the social-political activities and the role of the Turkish women writers Halide Edib, Arife Hanım, and others. The author discusses inter alia the impact of the Armenian intellectual milieu and, especially, that of the Turkish Armenian women's literature on the inception and development of the Feministic literature in Turkey.

Simple model for the generation of daily global solar-radiation data in Turkey

Modelling, performance analysis, and designing of solar energy systems depend on solar radiation data. In this study, a simple model for estimating the daily global radiation is developed. The model is based on a trigonometric function, which has only one independent parameter, namely the day of the year. The model is tested for 68 locations in Turkey using the data measured during at least 10 years. It is seen that predictions from the model agree well with the long-term measured data. The predictions are also compared with the data available in literature for Turkey. It is expected that the model developed for daily global solar radiation will be useful to the designers of energy-related systems as well as to those who need to estimates of yearly variation of global solar-radiation for any specific location in Turkey.

Folklore on Trial: Pertev Naili Boratav and the Denationalization of Turkish Folklore

In 1946, Pertev Naili Boratav established the first Department of Folk Literature in Turkey. In 1947 he was charged with discouraging nationalism and promoting leftism in his classroom. His trial, which took place the next year, marked a turning point in the development of Turkish folklore studies. He had hoped that his academic unit could systematize and professionalize folklore study in Turkey, which at the time was dominated by amateurs in the service of the semi-official cultural centers that collected and encouraged local research during the early Republican era. Taking the trial process as its center, this article situates Boratav's career within the history of Turkish folklore studies. An important moment in the international history of folkloristics, Boratav's 1948 trial praised significant issues regarding the politics of culture. Trial transcripts have never been fully available, leaving Boratav's final defense-not published until 1998-as the only comprehensive account of the overall event. Drawing upon this resource, author Arzu Ozturkrmell suggests how Boratav simultaneously defended his work as properly supportive of the new nation's ideals and also sought to denationalize it-that is, he promoted folklore as a means for understanding rather than as a way to bolster political claims.

Impacts of Divorce on the Behavior and Adjustment Problems, Parenting Styles, and Attachment Styles of Children

In recent years, the most dramatic change in family life has been observed in the rising rate of divorce. Especially in Western countries, more than one million children experience parental divorce and this has given rise to studies that seek answers to the questions of what the possible long-term and short-term effects of divorce on children may be and how they can be coped with. In this study, studies in the Western countries and the restricted number of studies in Turkey, which has a very different cultural background, on the possible adverse effects of divorce on children are reviewed with a view to introducing the existing findings to the relevant literature in Turkey. Within this framework, the impact of divorce on children's behaviour and adjustment problems, the parenting styles they perceive and the attachment styles they develop in the different periods of their lives are examined in the given order. While investigating into the possible effects of divorce on children during their childhood and in the later stages of their lives, the possible interaction of divorce with the variables of age, sex, and perceived social support is taken into consideration. As a result, in the light of the research findings of studies conducted both in the Western countries and in Turkey, it is observed that divorce may have detrimental effects on the levels of behaviour and adjustment problems of children, the parenting styles they perceive and the attachment styles they develop, and that these effects may vary depending on the children's sex, age, and the social support they perceive from their environment. On the other hand, another finding obtained from the study indicates that the possible negative impacts of divorce on children may be alleviated provided that favourable conditions are offered to them in the post-divorce period.

Fine-Tuning Nationalism: Critical Perspectives from Republican Literature in Turkey

This article reconsiders the role of nationalist literature in the making of Republican Turkey. In the 1980s and 1990s, Turkey witnessed the rise of identity politics and ideologies with Muslim and Ottomanist-oriented tones. It is often asserted that the major contradiction of identity politics in Turkey is between what can broadly be called the "Turkish-Islamic synthesis" and the radical, modernizing, official Kemalist nationalism. This article questions such a simplistic understanding of Turkish politics by articulating nationalist perspectives which oppose and criticize these two major ideologies. It discusses the work of three well-known nationalist writers, Kemal Tahir, Cemil Meriç and Attila I˙lhan in order to demonstrate the nuances of nationalist thinking and the possibilities that literature provides for extending the existing definitions of national identity in Turkey.

TÜRK VE ALMAN YIĞIN EDEBİYATI : —Edebiyat Tarihlerine Alınmayanlar!—

In this article, the description of Junk Literature, its historical development, authors, subjects, heroes and the Junk Literature in Turkey are given.