Beer in Turkey opened production of beer and two restaurants named in honor of his grandfather - "KHOFFNER Brewing Company", which function to this day. There were many pubs and bars in Istanbul, Izmir, and Thessaloniki. Production of beer in the Ottoman Empire was 1.2 billion liters in 1894. This increased to 9.9 billion liters in 1913–1914. Atatürk, the first president of the Turkish Republic, founded an ale factory in Ankara. İsmet İnönü, the first prime minister of Turkey, worked to improve the old Bomonti Beer Company. This created the first beer competition in Turkey. The Turkish beer market experienced 20% growth from
Prose of Turkey Kitap" (""The Black Book"") and 1998's "Benim Adım Kırmızı" (""My Name is Red"")—are influenced more by postmodernism than by modernism. This is true also of Latife Tekin (1957– ), whose first novel "Sevgili Arsız Ölüm" (""Dear Shameless Death"", 1983) shows the influence not only of postmodernism, but also of magic realism. Elif Şafak is the most read woman Turkish novelist. Prose of Turkey Prose of the Republic of Turkey covers the "Turkish Prose" beginning with 1911 with the national literature movement. Stylistically, the prose of the early years of the Republic of Turkey was essentially a continuation of the National