Our City Is a Peaceful Place, The Outlying Districts Summary

Playing his role as a reporter, Ka's first day in Kars was spent interviewing voters and the unemployed of Kars and the families of the girls who had committed suicide. He was treated everywhere like a famous journalist. The local publisher of the Border City News, Serdar Bey took him to meet the Assistant Chief of Police, Kasim Bey, as all travelers were expected to pay a visit to the police, especially one who was a political exile, who had just returned after many years.

Serdar Bey showed Ka where the mayor had recently been murdered, then took him to the police station, which was housed in what was once the mansion of a rich Armenian and later a Russian hospital. The policeman suggested that he needed...