Turtle Trainer: Blue Lotus October 1973

In the far-off future of 2023...

Turkey is celebrating the republic's 100th year by sending four mutant turtle brothers to explore Mars. But things are not what they seem... Raised by a dystopian state that values loyalty over all else, the confines of the space station start to merge with the limits of their consciousness. Hayret, Hiddet, Hikmet and Hürmet each respond to the harrowing mysteries on a hostile planet, in their own ways. Will they overcome the dangers lurking among the barren ochre dunes and the explosive geysers boiling underneath their fragile space station? Or will they discover that the real danger lies within their tortured bodies and tormented souls? Brace yourselves for a journey into the depths of a dystopian terror, unlike any you have ever known...

Efe Levent is an Istanbul-based author and founder of Mangal Media. As a former anthropologist, his fiction and personal essays share a common concern about identity and conflict. His collection of fiction works set in the universe of Global Anthropological Society (GAS) explicitly investigates the hierarchical nature of Academia and its role in the increasing social polarisation.

Feyza Daloğlu is an architectural historian studying the development of 19th-century Iskenderun. She is a former architect with experience in graphic and spatial design.