Turkish literature is traditionally said to begin with the Kokturk inscriptions of the eighth century. Found in the region of the Orhon River in northern Mongolia, these inscriptions are the major written source for the history of all Turkic languages....

Turkish literature (Turkish: Türk edebiyatı or Türk yazını) is the collection of written and oral texts composed in the Turkish language, either in its Ottoman form or in less exclusively literary forms, such as that spoken in the Republic of...

In the Turkey of the 1930s, the peasants and villages had been a major concern and interest for the Republican intellectuals. As a matter of fact, a peasantist discourse, the so-called koyculuk, was widely accepted and disseminated by the Republican elites. This phenomenon...

The Turkish turn in contemporary German literature has flickered on the horizon of analytical practices in the field of German studies for some time now. More often than not, this has transpired under thematic rubrics such as guest worker literature, foreigners' literature, migrants'...