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Problem Statement: İhsan Oktay Anar is one of the writers of contemporary postmodern Turkish fiction. Suskunlar is an arresting novel with its religious, historical, philosophical, sufistic texts and intertextual relations. His novel, Suskunlar, whose title derives from a graveyard behind Galata Mevlevîhanesi the lodge used by Mevlevî dervishes , tells the eternal struggle between Satan and God and Man in the light of the events that take place in Constantinople in the years following the reign of Sultan Ahmet III. It is obvious that İhsan Oktay Anar has meticulously worked on the narrative techniques he used in Suskunlar. The author has also constructed intertextual relations by drawing a tricky path from old texts to the new ones that he created. He has made the plot much more conspicuous with his creation of these new texts drawing on the Torah, the Bible and the Qur’an. Base of the Research: Textual and Intertextual Reading: Suskunlar. Purpose of the Research: The analysis of İhsan Oktay Anar’s Suskunlar through intertextual reading; exploring the texts that the author has woven together and the intertextual relations he has constructed, and the richness these have added to the novel. Resources of Data: İhsan Oktay Anar’s novel, Suskunlar; intertextuality; parody and pastische. Conclusions: Especially the parodical forms deriving from sacred texts have enriched the novel. Suskunlar is one of the most inspiring examples of contemporary Turkish Literature with its impressive story, its fastidious plotting and especially its textual and intertextual relations

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