'Kurban' ('Sacrifice') by Gungor Dilmen, with its poetical language and the power of its imaginative qualities is considered a masterpiece of the Turkish theatre literature. In this play, staged for the first time in 1967, it is evident that the playwright has drawn on a problem of the Turkish society, still present in some regions of the country. Although the Civil Code prohibits men to marry more than one woman, religious tradition permits them to marry a second or even third spouse. In this play, in which Gungor Dilmen has been inspired from Euripides' 'Medea', Zehra, the tragic heroine, rebels against her fate and is led to destruction. The playwright has created a woman character from Anatolia, surprising as much as logically consistent, extra-ordinary as much as convincing. The structure of 'Kurban' ('Sacrifice') is similar to the one of the ancient Greek tragedies. The events develop fast from happiness to unhappiness. . .