Though popular opinion says that many of these young suicides took their own lives because they were banned from wearing their headscarves at school by the secular government, Ka finds that their deaths owed more to systemic poverty and general unhappiness.Įarly on in the city of Kars, Ka meets up with Ipek at a café, where they witness the assassination of the local director of the Institute of Education. He also is continually struck by the destitution and sadness of the city for example, when Ka first arrives, he goes door to door to ask the families of the deceased girls about their deaths and is disturbed deeply. Though Ka is a secular, humanist individual in the tradition of Europeans and Westernized Turks, he begins to wake up to a nascent sense of faith while in the city of Kars. On the way into the city, Ka is struck by the constantly falling snow, which reminds him not only of his innocent childhood, but also of isolation, brutality, and even divinity. In reality, however, Ka is using this trip to Kars as an excuse to reconnect with Ipek, a beautiful woman from his past that he's heard recently separated from Muhtar, their mutual friend from college. In the early 1990s, a poet name Ka-fresh off of a 12-year exile in Frankfurt, Germany-returns to Turkey, the country of his birth and upbringing in order to write an article about a wave of suicides among young girls in the Eastern city of Kars.
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