Looking at the Republican Literature Through Novels on Trial

This dissertation, which aims to contribute to censorship studies in Turkish literature, focuses on fiction on trial from the birth of the Turkish Republic to the present. The primary goal of the study is the identification of these novels and their trial processes of them via archival work. The second stage is to determine the data obtained as a result of this archive through the most frequent and effective discursive themes in the sociocultural context. And third stage is to analyze these works selected by thematic division with the vehicles of literature. The main aim of this dissertation is to identify the cultural moments and regions where literature as a linguistic and discursive institution, and state practices and discourse meet, intersect and differentiate through censorship. Judgmental state repression concentrates on the literature on some sociocultural themes in each historical period. Thus, a line of judgment emerges, although not necessarily homogeneous. Each chapter contains four themes: minority, property, obscenity, and testimony. In this context, the second part of the thesis focuses on the literary censorship in the Early Republican Period around the minority issue. The third section analyzes fiction on trial because of "making communist propaganda", which intensified between 1940-1960, in the context of the property. The fourth chapter examines the works prosecuted for obscenity, especially after the 1980s. Finally, the fifth part of the thesis focuses on the period after the 1990s and 2000s and prosecuted novels for "propagandizing for a terrorist organization" within the framework of testimony.