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AbstractThis paper examines the impact underground literature (yeraltı
edebiyatı) has on influencing the opinions and beliefs
of Turkey's youth regarding issues of contemporary importance. In
order to understand the relevance of this genre to Turkish youth culture, we
have not only examined the debate surrounding the topic in popular and academic
circles, but also asked the readers themselves their opinions about their
experience with the genre (in both its imported Western and homegrown Turkish
variants) and its relevance to their lives. For our purposes, the
effect of such texts on readers is the primary
focus, and ours is the first mixed-media study to conduct a methodological,
data-based investigation into the composition and opinions of underground
literature's readers. Thus, our study supplements a lack in the
existing scholarship by offering concrete qualitative and quantitative data that
will better elucidate our knowledge of the relationship between underground
literature and Turkish youth attitudes, as well as the potential the genre might
hold for the future of Turkey's youth.