Özet:

Naim Tirali is one of the Turkish authors of the 1940 generation. He give place frequently human psychology and social life in his works. Tirali has been in the world of literature, politics and publishing throughout his life. Thanks to this, Tirali has been in contact with many poets, authors and politicians, and has make close friends with some of them. He mentions some of these friendships and relationships in some of his stories. Tirali is both the narrator and one of the characters of these stories at the same time. Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Yaşar Kemal, Oktay Akbal, Salâh Birsel from the world of literature; Adnan Menderes, İsmet Inönü, Bülent Ecevit, Yıldırım Akbulut from the world of politics take part in her stories as character. While the literary figures in the stories appear the reader as the author’s friend, the political figures are the people with whom the author communicates only at one point in his life or the people he knows. In these stories, it is seen that the author approaches events and people from a realistic point of view. In this study an attempt has been made to reveal how the literary and political figures in Naim Tirali’s stories are handled in the works.