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Sweet Tooth and Other Stories
Queerness, labels, and allyship are central themes in this moving collection of stories set in Turkey, where Middle Eastern and Euro-American expressions of identity collide and naming one's orientation is a fraught endeavor. An eleven-year-old undergoes hand surgery that will allow him to wear a wedding ring in adulthood. Two college roommates reach an erotic understanding as they indulge in dessert. A sex worker travels with an American same-sex marriage activist through the Aegean countryside. A passionate hookup during Istanbul Pride ends in tear gas. Two friends' tempers flare over cold red wine on a hot summer night by the Dardanelles. A father bonds with his son and his son's drag-que...
The Hungries
Mete was an emotionless child. He had lost his family at a young age and was left alone with his younger sister. Despite the passing years, he remained unchanged and could never regain his emotions. The moment he stepped into the darkness of the ruthless world, he could see the harsh realities. This world was rotten to the core, submerged in blood and flesh. He was not someone who would get lost amidst all this filth. He would become the closest being to God in this darkness. This war was between humans, creatures, and God.
Leaving One's Comfort Zone - The Story of a Move to Italy
“Any settlers in the family?” “You don’t look Turkish at all, are you an émigré?” “Where are you originally from?” From an early age, I started hearing these questions. Either in school, during a cab ride, in the office or in my new social circles. I face these questions right after we start chatting... and this happens often. I always expect it. “Gökhan, where are you from?” I evolved: my height, my features, my voice, my gestures, the way I think, and many more but the answer to this question has never changed: “My ancestors used to live in Greece. They were there for a few generations. With the convention concerning population exchange between Turkey and Greece, my ...
Matilda
Life can't go as fast as a butterfly flapping its wings." Matilda! A flower that tried to bloom in the middle of World War II when she was just four years old. Her struggle begins with gloating at people and the terrible blows of life. Unaware of what awaits her next, when she thinks that fear and apprehension are finally over, but life does not proceed as she thinks. Matilda will never think about giving up after all. She'll fight because she wants to live, but will she make it? Will she finally be able to throw open her wings and fly? lt' s a real life story! The traumatic story of a little girl.
Reincarnated as the Piggy Duke: This Time I’m Gonna Tell Her How I Feel! Volume 9
Breaking news: Slowe and Alicia are engaged! Cirquista wants to strengthen its alliance with Daryth, and Slowe’s brothers prefer battles over girls any day. Thus, Slowe and Alicia draw the short end of the stick—and are forced into a second engagement against their wills! The entire school is going wild, but the “couple” themselves aren’t happy about it. Alicia is sick of people trying to decide her life for her, and Slowe has finally gotten together with Charlotte, the love of his life. It won’t be easy going against a decision that affects the fate of two nations, but Alicia has one last trick up her sleeve. Hoping to nip this engagement in the bud, she and Slowe take on the infamous Labyrinth of Cirquista: Demon Land! Will they make it out alive and put an end to their shocking engagement?
You Are Mine
A love story in Los Angeles, New York and İstanbul.. This is first book written as a hobby by Author.
Why Not Build the Mosque?
An ethnography of a long-unbuilt mosque in Greece that explores government operations and contemporary democracy Why Not Build the Mosque? tells the story of the Greek state’s centuries-long attempt to build a central mosque. After the fall of Ottoman Empire, Greek Orthodoxy entwined with Greek nationalism, and by the twentieth century, the state came to imagine Islam as incompatible with a Greek-speaking Orthodox Christian identity. And so as late as 2020, the contemporary Greek state did not have a mosque, even as its Islamic population grew and increasingly required a place of worship. Focusing on the failed effort in the early 2000s to build a mosque in a suburb of Athens and on the su...
To the City
Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a story of the country’s history, a mirror of its present, and a shadow of its future. Caught between two seas and two continents, Istanbul lies at the center of the most pressing challenges of our time. With environmental decay, rapacious development and tightening authoritarianism straining its social fabric to breaking point, it represents the precipitous moment civilizations around theworld are currently facing. In and around its crumbling Byzantine-era fortifications, Alexander Christie-Miller meets people who are experiencing the looming crisis and fighting back, so...
The Routledge Dictionary of Turkish Cinema
The first critical and analytical dictionary of Turkish Cinema, this book provides a comprehensive overview of Turkish cinema from its beginnings to the present day. Addressing the lacuna in scholarly work on the topic, this dictionary provides immense detail on a wide range of aspects of Turkish cinema including; prominent filmmakers, films, actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, editors, producers, significant themes, genres, movements, theories, production modes, film journals, film schools and professional organizations. Extensively researched, elaborately detailed and written in a remarkably readable style, the Routledge Dictionary of Turkish Cinema will be invaluable for film scholars and researchers as a reference book and as a guide to the dynamics of the cinema of Turkey.
Two Women and One Man
Kerem Keskin is a sales representative in a big electronic store known throughout the country. He thinks that people around him are constantly cheating and humiliating him because of some bad memories he had during his childhood. In the prime of his life, he has to deal with the cancer that catches him. One day, after a quarrel with his wife, he falls into a relationship with a woman that he will regret in the future. He conceals many things from the people around him, especially his wife. But there's one thing he doesn't take into account: his wife is more clever than him. In this book, you will read about a self-confident man who competes with death.
