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Kemal Ateş’s novelToprak Kovgunları is a literary work that examines the rapid internal migration process in Türkiye during the second half of the 20th century through the social and cultural consequences of population movements from rural areas to urban centers. The novel takes shape around the identity crises economic hardships and struggles for adaptation experienced by individuals who left village life and began living in informal settlements. Written in a social realist vein the work narrat