1971: Military coup by memorandum ousts Justice Party. Leftist organizations are targeted for closure and their members imprisioned. Thus begins a period of marginalized voices in Turkish literature, including existentialism and feminism as represented by Oǧuz Atay and Adalet Aǧaoǧlu, respectively.
1970s: Tanpınar is rediscovered among the intelligentsia and his works are reissued or published for the first time.
1980: Military coup ousts government. Leftists are targeted in mass roundups. New Constitution of 1982 replaces that of 1961. Regarded by some as the beginning of the “Third Republic”. Ushers in a period of postnational, magical realist, and/or historical Ottoman novels in Turkish literature, as represented by Latife Tekin and Orhan Pamuk.
1997: Necmettin Erbakan of the Welfare Party resigns under pressure from the military in what the press dubs the “Postmodern Coup”. The Welfare Party is subsequently banned in the courts for antisecular activities.
2002, 2007: The Justice and Development (AK) Party wins national elections, signifying a fundamental transformation of the secular state. Beginning of a period of transcultural themes in Turkish literature, as represented by Elif Şafak.
2005: Turkey begins official negotiations with the European Union for full membership.
2006: Orhan Pamuk is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and acknowledges Tanpınar’s oeuvre as a formative influence.
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Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi.
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A mind at peace / Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar ;
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