ABSTRACT
This drama is the core plot of innumerable Turkish movies, and audiences seem never to tire of this tragedy in all its variations. It is also played out with some
1 Some of the research for this paper was partly supported by Meawards Grant ME A 205WAN A 88.301C. Further support was provided by Boğaziçi University Research Fund, Grants 92B0713 and 93B0701. Special thanks are due to Ayşe Mutaf Tulun for her help in supervising the collection of the data; to Emre Özgen, who assisted with data management and analysis; and to all the members of the interviewing team. The cooperation and assistance of Robert College and Tarhan Koleji, and the cooperation of the participating families, are also gratefully acknowledged.
