translated into French by Actes Sud in 2010. Rape conviction In 1995, Kaçan was arrested for torturing and raping his ex-girlfriend. He was released on bail pending the outcome of the trial, which ended five years later with a prison sentence of eight years and nine months. The appeals court upheld Kaçan's conviction. In 2006, he was caught by the police in his hometown while attending the funeral of a relative and sent to prison to serve his sentence. After spending close to four years in prison, the remainder of his sentence was commuted. Death Kaçan committed suicide by jumping from the Bosphorus Bridge on 6 January 2013. On that day, he took a cab in Esenler on the European side of Istanbul and requested to be driven to Üsküdar on the Asian side. He asked the driver to stop on the bridge so that he could take photographs. He got out of the vehicle, ran to the edge of the bridge, and threw himself off. His brother confirmed the suicide on 8 January. His body washed ashore on 18 January, twelve days after his disappearance, on the coast of Marmara Sea at Beylikdüzü. Kaçan was 51 years old. Literature by Metin Kaçan Jaklaban-Andante Graffiti (1989) Istanbul, Joker Yayınları Kaçan, Metin et Kemal Aratan İstedikleri Yere Gidenler (1991) Istanbul, Joker Yayınları Kaçan, Metin Ağır Roman (1995) Istanbul, Can Yayınları. Kaçan, Metin Fındık Sekiz (1997) Istanbul, Can Yayınları Kaçan, Metin Harman Kaplan (1999) Istanbul, Can Yayınları Kaçan, Metin Adalara Vapur (2002) Istanbul, Can Yayınları Kaçan, Metin Cholera Blues (2003) Berlin, Dağyeli Kaçan, Metin Cervantesin Yeğeni (2005) Istanbul, Can Yayınları Kaçan, Metin Haselnuss 8 (2008) Berlin, Dağyeli Literature about Metin Kaçan Hess 1998a. Hess, Michael Reinhard: Ağır Roman. Istanbuler Almanach 2 (1998). 64–66. Hess 1998b. Hess, Michael Reinhard: A Glance at the Wilder Side of Turkey: Ağır Roman. Orientalia Suecana 67 (1998). 55–67. Ecevit 2004. Ecevit, Yıldız: Türk Romanında Postmodernist Açılımlar [Postmodern Tendencies in the Turkish novel]. 3rd ed. Istanbul: Iletisim Yayınları. Hess 2005. Hess, Michael Reinhard: The Turkish Car Novel on a Trip: fındık sekiz by Metin Kaçan. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 95 (2005). 87–118. References 1961 births 2013 deaths People from Kayseri 20th-century Turkish writers Postmodern writers Suicides by jumping in Turkey Turkish male writers