Çevirinin izlerini keşfetmek: Sabahattin Ali'nin Koyun Masalı ve George Orwell'in Hayvan Çiftliği eserlerine çok boyutlu bir yaklaşım

Through the frameworks and concepts of Translation Studies, this thesis investigates the noteworthy parallels between George Orwell's Animal Farm and Sabahattin Ali's Koyun Masalı (Sheep Tale). Both texts are prominent political allegories that employ irony, satire, and symbolism to critique dictatorship, revolution, and the corruption of ideological principles. The study explores whether Sabahattin Ali may have been influenced by Orwell's allegorical work, examining how these two texts, emerging from different historical and cultural contexts, use the fable genre to convey complex ideological messages. Even though the lengths of the works are different, both employ strikingly similar narrative strategies, character archetypes, and allegorical techniques, produced in the same period, experiencing a world crisis, despite coming from different cultural contexts, Britain in the wake of World War II and Turkey during the early Republican period. In light of these points, this thesis tries to identify convergences that may go beyond simple coincidence by conducting a thorough comparative analysis of literary elements such as story structure, symbolism, and satirical techniques. Using the notions of "imitation", "adaptation", "assumed translation", "interference" and "contact", it questions the conventional boundaries between original literary production, translation and adaptation. The research also positions Sabahattin Ali as a cultural mediator or agent who may encounter and adapt transnational literary approaches, taking into account his translator identity and his confirmed access to Western literary works.