, It's Not Just You I've Lost, In Frankfurt Summary

Four years after Ka's visit to Kars, a friend of his, Orhan Bey, goes to Frankfurt after Ka's death. The friend was met at the train station by Ka's closest acquaintance in Frankfurt, Tarkut Olcun, an elderly man in his sixties, who had contacted Ka's family in Istanbul after his death. The family had asked Ka's friend, Orhan, to go to Frankfurt to collect his belongings.

Tarkut gave Orhan the small bag that Ka had been carrying when he was shot; this bag had been given to Tarkut by the police. While having coffee, Tarkut told Orhan that no one in Frankfurt besides himself knew Ka very well - that he was a solitary man with daily habits of going to the library, stopping at the same cafes or...