ABSTRACT
In the recorded history of the Turks, spanning 13 centuries, literature has been an abiding passion. For most of them, art meant literary creativity until the modern age. Although literature holds a place of pride in today’s Turkey, it has to share the limelight with many other genres including visual and plastic arts, music of all types and traditions, cinema, and television, as well as such more recent and engrossing inventions as the Internet.
