Abstract

Identity alludes to the distinct personality of a person consideredas a permanent entity, it involves our minds envisioning the manner in which the world and our social interactions are sorted out corresponding to other social groups, and along these lines, identity turns into an instrument for the quest for advantages. Simultaneously, the causal bolt between interests to identity could likewise run from identity to benefit" (Shree, 138). In his investigate of Orientalism, Edward Said established that a comprehension of identity can't be completely gotten a handle on by only examining lists or indexes. Rather, identity is best comprehended through the story. Pamuk's novels are described by a disarray or loss of identity welcomed on by the contention between Western and Eastern qualities. Pamuk's quest for identity is emphatically described by ideas of "East" and "West".  Significantly, these ideas are regularly inseparably connected to different pairs, for example, "secular/religious" and "conventional/modern" (Bhat, 56). In his books, Pamuk recommends understanding between apparently conflicting or contradicting cultural rationales. Every one of his books contains portrayals of social conflict, shaky identity, doubles, and duplicates trapped in a particular Ottoman or Turkish authentic historical context (Kunt, 502).

This paper will endeavor to discuss the vacillation identity of Turkish people between the modern secular west and the backseat traditional east and it will outline how Orhan Pamuk utilizes the notion of identity in his wonderful novels, as well as it will explain the identity change in Turkey since the era of the Ottoman Empire up to time of the secular republic of Turkey, furthermore, it will highlight on some examples from Pamuk’s literary work to prove that kind of Identity change.