Abstract—Ever since Modernist and Capitalist systems started to steer human life, critical approaches towards these two phenomenons have treated as subjects in literary works. In such literary works, which question humanbeing's perception of ethics, the relationship between power and person brings along the options of being included in the system and rejecting it. Standing against the "inevitable ending" which turns humanbeing into an automat defined as "a bureaucratic steel cage" by Weber, Marx has relatively more optimistic attitude about the possibility of human to escape from the system. In his theatre play titled Gizler Çarşısı, Turgay Nar narrates how human is corrupted through violence and control methods of power within the scope of hierarchical relations in the world. Messages that the author aims to give to readers/audience may differ in almost every stage; yet the main theme can be read as tragedy of humanbeing which keeps to be objectified in front of the power. The strength behind money and power ensures a control over crowds via violence, memory impairment and amnesia. The author ironically narrates how humanbeing comes into power and then systematically puts pressure on the same species in order to disidentify them and include them into the system. Accordingly, civilization does not prevent humanbeing's insanity; the one who feeds this wild order and sacrifices oneself to it is nothing else than humanbeing. In the work, it is also emphasized that humanbeing is going to face "blinding and corruption" as soon as the questioning about the world comes to an end. In his work titled Gizler Çarşısı, Turgay Nar ironically narrates how Beşikçi (Cradle Manufacturer) , an ordinary citizen, is systematically desensitized by the power and turned into a beast that does not hesitate to kill even his own child, through symbolical characters. Keywords—Modern Theatre, Turkish Literature, Turgay Nar, Gizler Çarşısı, Political Criticism. I. INTRODUCTION ODERNISM deals with setting up a political system and along with it, a community that is integrated with the system. This system tries different branches which have political, psychological, economical and sociological extensions to integrate its moral values. Every kind of way is rightful for the ruler, who is also the executive of the system. The ruling party focuses on the outcomes and presents two kinds of ethical understanding for the public: One of them is “morality of responsibility” (Rational morality) and the second one is “absolute value morality. According to the first one, actions are the mandatory outcomes of capitalist-burocratic Nurullah Ulutas is with Assoc. Prof. Dr., Muş Alparslan University, Department of Turkish Language Education, Turkey. system. The moment the person does that mandatory action, he becomes automated and a responsible officer of the system. S/he assigns all his/her autorisation to the system and becomes alienated to himself, others and the World. There is no way that absolute morality system can have a place in the system. The system defines every kind of emotional evaluation as irrational because of being vague and unpredictable. As a result, actions mean failure or being carried out of the system. The environment created by this ambivalent situation is explained by Weber as “iron cage.” Even though the situation alienates people and automates them, in such environment, the only choice is this: voluntarily or not; getting trapped in the iron cage. However, Marx is full of hopes contrary to Weber. It is possible to get away from this alienating system. (Kılınç, 2008: 220) Theatre has a major effect on changing the community. Erwin Piscator, accepted as the founder of documentary theatre explains the purpose of the theatre with this sentence: “We ignored the word “art” completely from our programme, our „plays‟ have been reflecting our urgent needs and aimig to affect contemporary issues as a „political activity.‟ Contrarily, his student Bertold Brecht always measures the value of the art work by looking at the effect of its power to change to community. (Kalkan Kocabay, 2004: 104-105). The text of “Market of Secrets” by Turgay Nar generally talks about a crib master who happens to be a murderer in a project that is held by the ruler and eventually gets drained away by losing all his memory. In the play, the author criticizes politically how the ruling power becomes rotten by using constant violence and taking control in the face of people‟s hierarchical relationships in the world. Although we can see that the message which is supposed to be given changes in every scene, the main theme is always the objectivization of people in front of the ruling power. The fear and the violence policies on top, the ruling power creates a psychological understanding that enables the people and community to behave outside their own will and information. This is names as “mind control.” (Dimdik Emeksiz, 2016: 1088). In this art work, it is hardly unnoticable that Nar tries to establish a perception management with the help of the ruling power in the play named Dr. F., It is highly common to use such perception management in the modern world. It is seen that governments and several effective groups deal with some kind of perception management in order to convince people to accept their policies. “By stimulating the feelings like fear, anger and excitement, deliberately or not, when the brain has been damaged enough, several beliefs can be easily imposed to people. Some of the most common effects of those kind of Political Criticism in Turgay Nar‟s Play Titled Gizler Çarşısı (Market of Secrets) Nurullah Ulutaş M International Journal of Humanities and Management Sciences (IJHMS) Volume 4, Issue 3 (2016) ISSN 2320–4044 (Online) 306