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CULTURE

A Defeated Lover

Fikriye is presented merely as a relative, a helper. Yet Fikriye was Mustafa Kemal’s past. The lost gardens of Salonica, the innocent afternoons of childhood. She was not a woman for the Pasha, she was a climate.

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The Greatest Poet: Nazım Hikmet

Nazım Hikmet, the greatest poet of modern Turkish lyric poetry, is, with the new language and new understanding he brought to the art of poetry, the greatest revolutionary of verse.

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Cemile

The oral tradition roots of Kyrgyz literature were unmistakably present in Aitmatov’s prose. The work could be read as an epic poem. Events were arranged not in chronological but in emotional logic. Time was not linear but cyclical.

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Virginia Woolf

She had seen her in a black-and-white photograph. Virginia sat thinking beside a window, in an armchair upholstered with patterned fabric, dressed in a garment of velvet-like cloth, a brooch at her collar whose exact shape she could not make out from the photograph, and a wide, long skirt cut from the same material.Hatice Dikbaş Again, reading the book in her hands, she noticed that her mind had drifted from the text, and she set it down on the coffee table in front of her.

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