Yeşil Gece

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Yeşil Gece ("Green Night") is a novel by Turkish author and playwright Reşat Nuri Güntekin, written in 1928.

The novel is about a boy, Şahin who is sent to a medrese (an Islamic school) by his devoutly Muslim father. Şahin rebels against his father and takes up rational thought and secularism. He then goes to spread his ideology on the people of a small town in the background of the war of independence and formation of the Turkish republic.

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