In Kızıl Elma and Altın Işık, which we brought together, Ziya Gökalp opens new horizons and shows new goals to the Turkish nation.
In Kızıl Elma, he says “You walk!” with his lines: “A poet is the one who finds his own soul.
I wrote these after finding your soul.
A creative poetry was floating there.
I wanted to turn this poetry into an epic, but you couldn’t wait.
You started to write it into history.
Therefore, I’m stopping.
Now you walk!” .
In Altın Işık, Gökalp paves the way for Turkish children to develop a national consciousness through his prose and verse tales: Keloğlan, Lazy Ahmet, Kuğu, Pomegranate Seed or False Keloğlan, Monk What Did You See?, Molasses Seller Mother, Yılan Bey and Peltan Bey, and Fallow Deer.