KÜLTÜREL BAĞLANMA SORUNU VE ELİF ŞAFAK.

When the Western-centered discourse is analyzed based on literary texts, a new intellectual profile appears, who has the problem of having commitment to her own culture and tradition. Considering the spread of this discourse on the literary texts, we encounter a kind of fiction that creates the text based on the Western canonic and cultural codes. Elif Safak's novels which we examine in terms of the means of culture and tradition points out the problem of commitment and assimilation of the intellectual profile that is isolated from her own value criteria and has formed her cultural borders on a European level. In this context, the author's way of establishing Western-centered text and developing unilateral discourse can be read as the influences of orientalism on Turkish intellectuals. With the image of 'other', the novels of the author who creates Western-centered text seem far from objectivity due to its source and a deviated structure. In this article, we will examine Elif Safak's motivation for creating Western-oriented texts and her unilateral approach to events with text-based analysis of the novels Ask, Araf, Baba ve Pic and Iskender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]