Turkey through the Looking Glass: Modern 
			Fiction
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					Robert Finn--Ambassador Finn is currently Senior Research 
					Associate at the Liechtenstein Institute on 
					Self-Determination and Lecturer in the Department of Near 
					Eastern Studies at Princeton University. 
					 
					 
					Another Kemal well known in Turkey is Orhan Kemal, one of 
					Turkey’s first socialist 
					 
					realists. His prolific works deal with the poor, the 
					underdog, and the proletariat in 
					 
					rough works that have been consistently popular with Turkish 
					readers. His The Idle 
					 
					Years (1949), The Prisoners (1954), and Gemile (1952) are 
					now available in English. 
					 
					 
					 
					The Middle East Institute Viewpoints: The State of the Arts 
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