Women in Haristan and ？a？layan

In the novels and short stories of Servet-i Fün？n writers such as Halit Ziya, Mehmet Rauf and Hüseyin Cahit, it is possible to observe to be featured female characters and their thoughts, the details of their inner world in a remarkable intensity. There are many libertarian fictive female characters in Halit Ziya’s novels who ignores social conventions, Islamic traditions. This fact can be seen in the characters of A？k-？ Memnu, such as Bihter, Firdevs Han？m. We can say that Servet-i Fün？n writers gave the leading roles to female characters in the fiction. These characters are dominant, strong-willed and self confident. The same fact, again applies to the stories of Ahmet Hikmet Müftüo？lu, a Servet-i Fün？n writer. The women in the stories of Ahmet Hikmet become evident by their rebellions and criticisms to social order set up by men, by voicing the rights which are deprived of them. At the same time, as the people whom culture and art, in a single word, civilization has manifested and reflected in, they stand at a significant point as well. In this writing, the women and the discourse of them in two books named Haristan and ？a？layanlar of Ahmet Hikmet have been examined in the context of above mentioned topics