Make-Believe: Parafiction and Plausibility

Abstract

When the artist Michael Blum arrived in Istanbul to prepare for that city's Ninth International Biennial, he discovered that the apartment building that had been home in the early twentieth century to the teacher, translator, communist, and feminist Safiye Behar was slated for demolition.A remarkable, if little-known historical figure, Behar (1890-1965) was a Turkish Jew who enjoyed a long friendship-some say a romance-with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Turkish Republic.The two met in 1905, in the heady atmosphere of the Zeuve Birahanesi,

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