While reading Black Dog, I saw parts of my own life. We all go through traumas and create our own Black Dog. Mine was not being able to trust. Finally, I let my Black Dog out and he is roaming the streets. I wish this book, written by Fırat Uran with a delicate touch and creatively illustrated by Ece Cangüden, will attract attention and become a movie.

Cake Mosque (Drag Queen)

Black Dog is yours and mine.

Qubra Uzun (DJ)

Two years ago, Fırat Uran started with a road story, a love story that draws new paths beyond the existing ones. Now, in Kara Köpek, the road continues with the dance of darkness and light, between the wound and the beauty of being yourself in an age full of hate, and the sometimes difficult, sometimes exciting time of youth. Kara Dog is a novel about traumas and fears, loneliness and coming together, self-discovery and holding hands. The fire of love and passion, childhood memories, teenage crises, family wounds, inner dogs, transformation, Dream Cinema, Joker and Batman's love, lots of Kadıköy and Elizabeth's greetings...

Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu (Performance Artist, Editor)

For those who know full well that they will be ruined in the game of "Truth or Dare?" but choose 'dare' every time.

Burcu Eken (Doggy Cin Blues)

In this book, you will read a respectful and fluent effort to make the natural visible in the socio-cultural structure where the invisibility of the LGBTIQ+ world in Turkey is tried to be essential; encouraging, liberating, pluralistic, rejecting the concept of the other and judgment, Black Dog is the antidote to the feeling of suffocation that comes when trying to breathe as yourself...

Gazi Mehmet Emin Adanalı (Lecturer, Boğaziçi University)

While reading, I encountered a familiar, unwanted but very, very familiar feeling that you say "I recognize this feeling wherever I am!". I was sure that I was there in the moments when words -bodies- made love. Fırat has delivered us a novel that I finished again and again in one fell swoop and left an unquenchable 'what if then' in me. So that everyone can claim their part.

Buket Konur (Editor)