In her novel "Face to Face", Turkish author Ayse Kulin relates the life stories of two women who although they are from opposite spectrums of Turkish society, are closely connected with one another through fate. "When I stayed at the farm over the weekends, Zelha´s grandfather used to gather his grandchilderen and myself around him regaling us the stories but the embellişshed them with appropriate folk songs. We girls preferred the stories involving love and the boys liked the war epics. These incredible unknown details would explain why the Kurds and the Turks both stayed together and confronted esch other."