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Necati Cumalı was born on 13 January 1921 in the town of Florina, located in the Western Macedonia region of present-day Greece. His real name was Ahmet Necati Acar. Cumalı’s family, originally Macedonian migrants from Florina, settled in the Urla district of İzmir in 1924 as part of the population exchange between Türkiye and Greece following the Treaty of Lausanne. This migration led Cumalı to spend his childhood and youth amid economic and social hardship. He learned Turkish for the first tim

Suat Derviş is a writer, journalist, translator, and political activist known for her works focusing on women’s representation, class differences, and social justice in 20th century Turkish literature. Her novels and journalistic efforts particularly examine the living conditions and social marginalization of urban women. Derviş maintained a strong connection between her literary output and political stance, and for a long time her work was evaluated outside the mainstream literary structures; h