The Time Regulation Institute, published in Turkish as Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitusu, is a novel by the Turkish writer Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, serialized from 1954 and published in book form in 1961 by Remzi Kitabevi. Narrated by its protagonist Hayri Irdal, it satirizes the modernization of Turkish society through the story of an institute set up to bring the country's clocks into line with Western time, a plot that plays off the real 1926 Gregorian Calendar Act introduced under Kemal Ataturk. The novel has been translated into English twice, in 2001 and again in 2013, and is admired for using absurdist comedy to examine the strains of rapid modernization on Turkish life.
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The Time Regulation Institute (Turkish: Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü) is a novel by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar. It began serialization in a newspaper in 1954. It was first published as a book in 1961. Yapı Kredi Yayınları republished the novel in 1999 as part of a campaign to publish various novels by Tanpınar in book form. Selim Kuru of the University of Washington wrote that the 1999 version was "poorly edited".
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