![]() Thirdly, we know that our narrator wrote a biography of the great Ahmet the Timely, who was the inspiration and patron saint of the Institute. Surprisingly enough, people accepted this with good grace. Secondly, if you were caught with a timepiece that was not telling the correct time, you would be fined. The first is that there are places that you can go to, for a small fee, to have your watch or other timepiece accurately regulated. We also learn early on that our narrator was the deputy director of it and that it has become defunct. The title tells us that a Time Regulation Institute was created. We learn early on the main outline of what happens later in the novel. As a result, he had clock towers built across the country so that Turks could know precisely what time it was. However, Atatürk wanted his country to be modern and that meant knowing the time. ![]() There was no need to know exactly what time it was and there were no church clock towers, as there were in many parts of Europe. Most Turks, particularly in rural areas, followed the sun or listened to the muezzin’s call to prayers. Prior to that there was limited use of clocks and watches. When Kemal Atatürk embarked on his modernisation project in Turkey in the 1920s, one of the many areas he changed was time. Home » Turkey » Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar » Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü (The Time Regulation Institute) Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar: Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü (The Time Regulation Institute) ![]()
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