in 2002 by Dost Yayınları, in English language translation by Talât Sait Halman. Editions Laugh or Lament Laugh or Lament: Selected Short Stories is a 2002 short story collection by Turkish writer Aziz Nesin published by Turkish Ministry of Culture, in English language translation by Masud Akhtar Shaikh, with an introduction by the translator. The volume consists of the stories; Editions Online translations [https://web.archive.org/web/20090217150107/http://menic.utexas.edu/istanbul_boy/ Istanbul Boy: The Autobiography of Aziz Nesin, Part I] at University of Texas. A Patriotic Duty at Boğaziçi University. Notes According to Nesin's autobiography Memoirs of an Exile: "They named me Nusret. In Turkish, this Arabic word means 'God's Help.' It was a name entirely fitting to us because my family, destitute of any other hope, placed all their hope in God." References Sources Nesin, Aziz. Istanbul Boy – The autobiography of Aziz Nesin, translated by Joseph S. Jacobson Turkishculture.org – Aziz Nesin (1916-1995) Allword, Edward. The Tatars of Crimea: Return to the Homeland : Studies and Documents''. North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1998. . External links Nesin Foundation Turkish Culture & Poems of Aziz Nesin Poetry of Aziz Nesin, translated into English Online edition of Istanbul Boy, Part I Aziz Nesin: A Black-comedy Defiant Turkish Satirist 1915 births 1995 deaths Turkish atheism activists Writers from Istanbul Turkish people of Crimean Tatar descent Kuleli Military High School alumni Turkish Military Academy alumni Turkish Army officers Turkish children's writers Turkish magazine founders Turkish novelists Turkish poets Turkish former Muslims Turkish prisoners and detainees Turkish humorists Prisoners and detainees of Turkey 20th-century novelists 20th-century poets Akbaba (periodical) people Turkish secularists Turkish Marxists Turkish atheists Former Muslims turned agnostics or atheists