''Yeşil Gece'' ("The Green Night") is a novel by Turkish author and playwright
Reşat Nuri Güntekin
Reşat Nuri Güntekin () (25 November 1889 – 7 December 1956) was a Turkish novelist, storywriter, and playwright. His best known novel, ''Çalıkuşu'' ("The Wren", 1922) is about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher in Anatolia. Th ...
, written in 1928.
The novel is about Şahin, a boy who is sent to a
medrese
Madrasa (, also , ; Arabic: مدرسة , ), sometimes Romanization of Arabic, romanized as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any Educational institution, type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whet ...
(an
Islamic
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school) by his devoutly Muslim father. Şahin rebels against his father and takes up
rational thought and
secularism
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. He then goes on to spread his ideology on the people of a small town in the background of the
Turkish War of Independence
, strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...
and formation of the
Turkish Republic Turkish Republic may refer to:
* Turkey, archaically the "Turkish Republic"
* Northern Cyprus
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.
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About the novel
1928 novels
Novels set in Turkey
Novels by Reşat Nuri Güntekin
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