Women Convict Of Kemal Tahir: Karılar Koğuşu

Prisons and imprisonment is a common theme in almost all Kemal Tahir’s novels especially that of Esir Şehrin Mahpusu (The Prisoner of the Enslaved City), Rahmet Yolları Kesti (The Rain Blocked the Roads), Kurt Kanunu (The Wolf’s Law), Namusçular (Fort the Sake of Honor), and Karılar Koğuşu (The Women’s Ward). Karılar Koğuşu, which will be analysed in this article, is published after Kemal T hir’s death from his almost complete novel notes from the twelve years h e spent in prison, and concerned mainly with the prison life, the justice system and individual psychologies. Kemal Tahir amassed information about the women of Anatolia during his long prison term. In his Karılar Koğuşu, he is preoccupied with describing women criminals serving sentences in the name of chastity, honor, revenge or murder because of lo ve.