Give Your Vote to God's Party, Poverty and History Summary

Kars has a long history of different prominent groups of people influencing the region - Armenians, Persians fleeing the Moghul, Iranians, and Greeks back to Byantine times, along with various tribes of Georgians, Kurds, Circassians, Russians, Ottomans and even the British - all leaving their marks on this remote border city.

Ka is summoned to the Border City Gazette by Serdar Bey, the owner. On his way out of the hotel, Ka literally runs into Ipek, the beautiful divorcee he knew when he was at university. Ipek invites him to meet for tea after his appointment, to which he readily agrees. The newspaper owner angrily greets him with accusations of meeting with the wrong people in Kars, that they are telling Ka the wrong things about the...