Humour is no laughing matter in Turkey, it is a mechanism for coping with stress and suppression. It carries a deep well of melancholy. One of our running jokes these days goes like this: a journalist behind bars asks the prison guards if he might have some books to read and enquires about a particular novel. “No, we don’t have that novel,” comes the reply. “But we do have the author.”
在土耳其，幽默并不是笑料，而是一种应对压力和压抑的机制。它蕴含着深深的忧伤。我们最近常说的一个笑话是这样的：一名被关押的记者问狱警能否给他一些书看，并询问某本小说。“不，我们没有那本小说，”狱警回答道，“但我们有那位作者。”
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