On 4/23/06, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Today's featured article (Main Page, 23rd April 2006)
"Turkish literature is the literature written in the Turkish
language....."
While it sounds a little bit silly, it appears to be a valid and dignificant
assertion. The article isn't just about the literature of Turkey (a
post-1919 state) nor is it the entire literature of the Ottoman Empire
(which was a multi-national empire). It's also not the literature of
Anatolia - Anatolia was not Turkish until about 500-800 years ago, and the
Turks were not originally Anatolian.
Ian