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Justice Agaoğlu's triangle "Dar Times" processes memory, history and identity issues through the development of the great hero Aysel, who begins with his story as a young girl who grew up with the ideals of the Republic and was an academic in the revolving times of the Turkish history after the Republic. In the context of the historical events of the post-Republican Turkey, this triangle, which assesses the formation of the memory and identity of the individual and society through the task of remembering both individual and social history, presents an important criticism of social and individual amnesia. This triangle of Brother, in particular, depicts how individual and social memory should be re-reviewed in order to build the history and identity of the individual and the individual in general. At this point, Brother's Three-Time Triangles hosts the memory ethics discussions that have been importantly studied since the twentieth century. The first novel of the Triangle, Sleeping to Die, offers memory ethics against individual and social forgetting, while the second novel reveals that individuals who prefer to forget past events will hurt not only themselves, but also their own communities. The last novel of the triangle No... defines forgotten as madness and suggests the birth of a New Man who can resist forgotten by re-reviewing history. In this context, this study focuses on the moral aspect of forgetting and remembering in the Triangle of Brother's Dark Times, and a reference to the theories of memory ethics aims to study individual and social memory in the national history and identity relationship.

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Adalet Ağaoğlu’s trilogy Dar Zamanlar [Narrow Times] addresses memory, history, and identity by depicting the development of its protagonist, Aysel, who begins her narrative as a little girl raised with Republican ideals and becomes an academician in the turbulent times of post-republican Turkish history. Evaluating the memory and identity formation of the individual and society in the context of the historical events of post-republic Turkey, this trilogy presents an essential critique of social and individual amnesia. The trilogy depicts how the individual and social memory should be revisited to construct the history and identity of individuals in particular as well as the society as a whole. At this point, Ağaoğlu’s trilogy embodies the debates on the ethics of memory, a topic on which significant studies have been conducted since the twentieth century. The first novel of the trilogy, Ölmeye Yatmak [Lying Down to Die], addresses the ethics of remembering against individual and social amnesia. The second novel, Bir Düğün Gecesi [A Wedding Night], reveals how individuals who prefer to forget past events would cause harm to themselves as well as to their society. Finally, the last novel of the trilogy, Hayır… [No…], defines forgetting as an act of insanity and proposes the birth of a New Human who could eliminate oblivion by revisiting history. In this respect, this study focuses on the moral side of forgetting and remembering in Ağaoğlu’s Dar Zamanlar trilogy and aims to examine individual and social memory in terms of its relation to national history and identity by referring to the theories of the ethics of memory.