Portrait of a Turkish Family

Author(s): Irfan Orga

Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Türkiye (Turkey)

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

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A haunting evocation of a childhood in late Ottoman/early Republican Turkey and the abrupt collapse of a single family’s fortunes

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