ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the more practical aspect by inquiring into the motives for writing given by the authors of the source texts themselves. These motives are most commonly outlined in a foreword prefixed to the main text of an autobiography. The chapter also describes autobiographies of Ahmet Emin Yalman, Kazim Karabekir, Riza Nur, Vehbi Koc, Tevfik Saglam, Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, Cemil Topuzlu, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Irfan Orga and Sevket Sureyya Aydemir. Yalman continues by announcing that the reader will hear about the events which came to pass at home and abroad from the mouth of a journalist and "eyewitness". Nur was concerned with falsified or "constructed" history because his autobiography is just this, a constructed history. The autobiographer is shown in a vulnerable position, threatened with imprisonment and forced exile, prone to losing his possessions to the vagaries on life on the run, or to hungry rodents as the case might be.
