Kemal Ateş’in Yapitlarinda Gecekondulaşma Olgusu
Squatting Fact in the Works of Kemal Ateş

Summary/Abstract: Migration process that is started in 1940s gained notable speed in 1950s, in which some agricultural changes experienced in rural areas, and continued in the forthcoming years. This made way for housing problem afflicting low-income population who are heaped up in big cities and setting up shanty houses as well as shanty regions. As an example of reflection of changes experienced in societal and economic structure in literature products we may give a lot of literature works that make reference to living in that kind of housings. The stories and novels of Kemal Ateş who are well known by his academic activities and studies relating to language are very interesting in terms of recounting shanty lives and sociological observations. Ateş reflects the appearances of Ankara shanty houses, which are well known by him as he lived in them, beginning from 1950s to 1970s. He describes the people who striving for living in a big city and their struggles for life. He displays the people who come from the around counties and provinces, have to lead their lives without having amenities, describing their relationships with each other and city as well as their customs. He recounts tales about the lives of shanty people shaped by an inter culture between village and town. The aim of this study is to deal the squatting fact experienced in Turkey as being appearanced in the works of Kemal Ateş and make comparisions between observations related to real life with the contents of literature product. For this purpose we applied to the knowledge and documents of the experts who worked on squatting fact in Turkey. We approached the works of Kemal Ateş in this perspective. We think that the said stories and novels deal the the squatting fact, which is a social reality in Turkey, by a realist perspective.

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