Kenarda Kalmış

Halit Ziya Usakligil is a “founding” writer. A "hard time" intellectual who did not limit his production to a single genre, but thought, wrote and researched many things he saw around him. 

Usakligil admits that he said this with this book: "While we were curled up and lying in the cold, pulling his torn robe over his head. "We are in the manner of a poet who is content to watch the stars through the holes in his veil." Sideside is before its readers as a true "discovery". Moreover, with a bold typesetting for today's readers. 

“The majority of Halit Ziya Usakligil's work is II. His book, "Stayed on the Side", which consists of his writings that he wrote after the Second Constitutional Monarchy and which he did not publish as a book, stands between Halit Ziya, the bureaucrat in Saray ve Ötesi, and Halit Ziya, who describes his life and literature in Forty Years. Here we see not only the literary figure Halit Ziya, but also an intellectual who witnessed the suffering of those who had to escape from war and the helplessness of this intellectual. On the other hand, one of the most fundamental problems of this intellectual is education, and he expresses his views on this issue at length, and does not refrain from greeting the writers and poets of his period.” 

(Introduction From the Bulletin)

Editor : Mehmet Said Aydin
Editor : Seval Sahin