From Cumhuriyet, January 21, 1956 He would certainly have made an impression on the Dino brothers when they first met him in Adana in the early 1940s. Abidin and Arif Dino were urbanites, art…| Reuben Silverman
I am a graduate student at the University of Washington. I tend to focus on Turkey, but I am interested, more generally, in the wider world. I am particularly interested in food, culture, and other…| Reuben Silverman
Ömer Seyfettin (1884-1920) is the sort of writer whose role in shaping a “national” literature is profound and unignorable, but whose writing fits awkwardly with contemporary sensibilities.[1] The …| Reuben Silverman
Like westerns in the US or samurai films in Japan, the efe film genre in Turkey drew on a past, partly real, partly mythologized, to create stories that resonated with movie-goers during the 1950s …| Reuben Silverman
The startling success of opposition parties—the CHP chief among them—played out in provinces across Turkey. Consider several examples. Compared to the results elsewhere, the local elections in Düzc…| Reuben Silverman