He has published articles in English and Turkish on various literary and cultural issues on Modern Turkish and Central Asian Turkic literatures. Other publications include a book entitled Osmanlı’yı Tahayyül Etmek: Tarihsel Romanda Fatih Temsilleri (Boğaziçi University Press, 2017). Kara also co-edited (with Olcay Akyıldız and Börte Sagaster) a book entitled Autobiographical Themes in Turkish Literature (Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2007). Kara’s current project focuses on modern literary historiography in Turkish literature.