Should fiction writing be political? Why do writers communicate political ideas in fiction?
We live in a world which freedom of opinion is nominal. According to the laws any person can reveal his own thoughts and political views. However, in our country the government is trying to suppress the anti-governmental ideas and punishes subtly the people who still continue writing. Normally fiction writings should not include political views; nevertheless, I believe that it is the only way for the writers to unveil their own political ideas without any consequences.
In Turkey, the government has found a way to terminate the people who write in between the rights of the law, the Ergenekon trials. The government arrested hundreds of writers who wrote that our country was falling backwards and the authority had to change to reunion Kemalism. After these unexplained arrests, the writers were scared to write their public opinions to their corners directly. Instead they had to reveal their thoughts subtly that they were not conspicuous, but still the readers and the society should understand it. Thus, the writers wrote “hypothetical” settings and “hypothetical” events that happened and published their political views.
To conclude, even if the government tries to censor an article or someone, that person will eventually find a different way and opportunity to evoke the sense of alteration and insurgence. Now the fiction writings are being used as an intermediary; tomorrow it will be something else.
