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Banned Book Spotlight Falls on Yaşar Kemal's They Burn the Thistles

Original: Banned book of the day: They Burn the Thistles (1969) — Yaşar Kemal https://www. banned-books.org/book-of-the-d ay/2026-

The banned-books advocacy site banned-books.org is featuring Turkish author Yaşar Kemal's 1969 novel They Burn the Thistles as its book of the day, drawing fresh attention to the history of censorship around the work. Kemal, one of Turkey's best-known novelists, repeatedly faced prosecution and bans over his writings. Readers online are sharing the feature under censorship and freedom-to-read tags.

Why now: The book-of-the-day feature is prompting readers to discuss the censorship history of Yaşar Kemal's work.

Yaşar KemalThey Burn the Thistlesbanned-books.orgTurkey

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• Banned book of the day: They Burn the Thistles (1969) — Yaşar Kemal https://www. banned-books.org/book-of-the-d ay/2026-09-30?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=book-of-the-day # BannedBooks # Censorship # FreedomToRead # Books # IntellectualFreedom · bannedbooks · 2

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