ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief historical sketch of the eventful Greek and Turkish sixties. It discusses Turkey's absence from Anglophone scholarship on the world sixties by looking at Turkey in the context of the Cold War in the Mediterranean and comparing its situation to that of Greece. The chapter provides brief analyses of literary, cinematic, and musical works that emerged from the Turkish and Greek sixties. It argues that the sixties in the Mediterranean provide a model of the uneven yet inextricable connections that exist among politics, economics, and culture in the liminal semi-periphery. The sixties in Turkey and Greece were a time of unprecedented radicalization, artistic experimentation, internationalism, and youthful disaffection. The turbulent events and rich cultural production of what we can call the "long sixties" in Greece and Turkey are little known to the rest of the world. The cultural production of the Turkish sixties was as rich and complex as its politics.
