The Murdered Author: Sabahattin Ali and the Epic Escape from the Republic
Sabahattin Ali’s name appeared fleetingly in some documents I read about İsmet İnönü, but I paused when I encountered it. Something about the name itself stirred a thought: could he have belonged to one of those Bulgarian Christian families who paid the “blood tax,” providing sons to the Ottoman Janissary Corps? But Sabahattin Ali was […]