The Memories of Relationships of Child and War in Turkish Cypriot Poetry

Abstract

The autobiographical approaches in the Turkish Cypriot literature are important both in political and social means as well as the literary one. They can be considered as Cypriots' memories. As the Turkish Cypriots, women, men and children, had given a hard struggle to protect their homeland in the near past, this problematic context with in a socio-psychological basis has important retlections in the literature.This article focuses on the specific relationship between "child and war" and deseribes how this relationship is formed and experienced in the selected poems.