Summary
A JOURNALIST and poet, armed only with a vague commission from an Istanbul paper, visits Kars, a bleak and remote town in eastern Turkey, close to the Armenian border, and a long way from Ankara, even further from Istanbul. He arrives in the middle of a heavy snowstorm that is to continue for several days, cutting the town off from the rest of Turkey.
Although himself a Turk, the writer has been languishing in selfimposed exile in Frankfurt for several years. He is a rather seedy individual, a pornography addict and a watcher rather than a doer. Nonetheless, he embarks on a vigorous series of interviews with key players in the town: politicians, policemen and journalists (who have a sinister tendency to write the news before it happens). He is investigating a series of suicides by young Muslim women, and soon he realises that he is in a community where just about everyone seems to be a spy or an agent of some kind.See the full content of this document
Extract
The Danger of Keeping Turkey Out in the Cold
In a small pastry shop-cum-cafe, he conducts an interview with a beautiful woman with whom he is falling in love. So he does not pay much attention to the only other patrons, the head of the local education institute, who has been embroiled in controversy because he has banned...
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