Platform 11

1. Peron; the story of those who went from Anatolia to Europe with a thousand hopes when Germany started accepting workers in 1961… In his book, Gökhan Duman narrates the experiences of men, women, and children who built a new world for themselves but sometimes found themselves trapped under the world they constructed, depicting the ‘foreignness’, the ‘departed’, and the ‘remaining’. Duman’s compelling narrative is enriched with photographs from the era, giving it a documentary-like quality. “Telling the familiar tale of migration from the perspectives of those who left and those who stayed, 11th Platform invites the reader to sit in a corner of the compartment like a passenger on the Sirkeci train and closely observe what unfolds. In his work, Gökhan Duman shares the experiences of our workers who worked in Germany during a certain period through the eyes of Ibrahim and his family, while also immortalizing the precious memories of workers who went there and endured great hardships, sometimes caught in fires, and at times succumbed to pressures, leaving a testament of gratitude.