{"id":11359,"date":"2026-09-22T19:56:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11359"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T11:54:20","slug":"nilay-ozer-receives-oguz-tansel-poetry-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11359","title":{"rendered":"Nilay \u00d6zer Receives O\u011fuz Tansel Poetry Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Asst. Prof. Nilay \u00d6zer, who completed her master\u2019s and doctoral studies in the Department of Turkish Literature and now teaches at Yeditepe University, has received the O\u011fuz Tansel Poetry Award for her book \u201cY\u00fcz\u00fc Kelebeklerle \u00d6rt\u00fcl\u00fc.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The jury based its decision on Dr. \u00d6zer\u2019s success in reconstructing the fragmented and scattered nature of human existence through an original world of imagery. Her work was recognized for moving poetry beyond a distanced form of text-making into what the jury called an \u201carchaeology of the self \u201d that traces fragilities and hidden lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mert Tutucu received special mention for the avant-garde collection \u201cApokrif \u0130nciler,\u201d which blends the language of history, politics and the street in a distinctive poetic style to address questions of identity, otherness and subalternity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asst. Prof. Nilay \u00d6zer, who completed her master\u2019s and doctoral studies in the Department of Turkish Literature and now teaches at Yeditepe University, has received the O\u011fuz Tansel Poetry Award for her book \u201cY\u00fcz\u00fc Kelebeklerle \u00d6rt\u00fcl\u00fc.\u201d The jury based its decision on Dr. \u00d6zer\u2019s success in reconstructing the fragmented and<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11359\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,80,226,224],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11360,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359\/revisions\/11360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}