in 1939 orhan veli was in a car accident with his friend melih cevdet, as a result of which he was in a coma for twenty days. melih cevdet was driving the car they were in when it rolled off the top of çubuk dam. in may 1942 the garip collection was published. this volume included 24 poems from orhan veli, along with 16 by melih cevdet and 20 by oktay rıfat. orhan veli had also penned the sensational introduction of the volume. garip marks the beginning of the garip movement, also known as the "birinci yeni" (the first new). kanık, horozcu and anday were adopting a radical stance rejecting both the syllabist tradition and ahmet haşim's poetry that preceded them, and nazım hikmet's social-realist verse. the poetry and the introduction of the garip volume caused controversy in the turkish literary world. a specific line by orhan veli became a focus of dispute: "yazık oldu süleyman efendi'ye". some denounced it, and there were also some charges of plagiarism, yet on the other hand a number of critics found it to be one of the most eloquently written lines in turkish. all the surrounding debate popularized the line to the point that, according to nurullah ataç, "it was in all the ferries, trams, coffeehouses", indeed becoming an idiomatic expression. another line by the poet that has been at least as popular in daily language is "bir de rakı şişesinde balık olsam" (..one more thing, would that i were a fish in a bottle of rakı), which orhan veli had written specifically to satirize ahmet haşim's famous line "göllerde bu dem bir kamış olsam (would that in this moment i were a cane of reed in the lakes)".