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Lemos,
Anastasia
Aglaia
(2019)
Aspects
of
the
literatures
of
the
Turkish
war
of
independence
and
the
Greek
Asia
Minor
disaster.
PhD
thesis.
SOAS
University
of
London.
http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/30967
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1 
ASPECTS OF THE LITERATURES OF THE TURKISH WAR OF 
INDEPENDENCE AND THE GREEK ASIA MINOR DISASTER 
Anastasia Aglaia Lemos 
Thesis submitted for the degree of PhD 
2018 
Department of the Languages and Cultures 
of the Near and Middle East 
SOAS, University of London 

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3 
ABSTRACT
The thesis examines literary works in Greek and Turkish inspired by the war of 1919-
1922 and the subsequent exchange of populations, the most critical years in the recent 
life of both nations. It focuses on the early period, particularly the works of Yakup 
Kadri Karaosmanoğlu and Halide Edip Adıvar in Turkey and Elias Venezis in Greece. 
It seeks to show the way themes were selected and then used or adapted to reflect more 
contemporary concerns. For this purpose successive variants of the same work are 
examined. Attention is drawn to the importance given in both literatures to victimhood 
which explains their quite divergent emphasis on different events which has resulted 
in the readership in each nation being largely blind to the view held by the other.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 
4 
Page 
Title Page 
1 
Declaration 
2 
Abstract 
3 
Table of Contents 
4 
Dedication 
5 
Acknowledgements
6 
Chapter 1 Introduction 
9 
Chapter 2 Historical Background 
30 
Chapter 3 Some Topoi in the Kurtuluş Edebiyatı 
80 
Chapter 4 Halide Edip and Yakup Kadri 
102 
Chapter 5 Two Shirts of Flame 
161 
Chapter 6 Vurun Kahpeye!
192 
Chapter 7 
Ergenekon
 
 
201 
Chapter 8 
Yaban
, Kadro, 
Ankara
233 
Chapter 9 The Greek Case: Venezis
280 
Chapter 10 Conclusion 
298 
Appendix 1 Yakup Kadri’s 
Ateşten Gömlek
301 
Appendix 2 Yakup Kadri’s 
Ateşten Gömlek
Translation 
311 
Appendix 3 Yakup Kadri’s 1964 Preface and Epilogue 
to 
Ergenekon
323 
Appendix 4 
Yaban
Textual variants
329 
Bibliography
435 

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5 
To my Greek and Turkish families 
George
Zerrin 
Dimitris Christos and Koula
Zeynep and Salih Zeki 
Takis and Katerina

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
6 
From the time I started my research for this thesis many unforeseen events in my life 
delayed it and postponed my attempts to complete it. Over the years a number of 
people, friends old and new, kindly helped me, each in his or her own way, and 
contributed to its progress. I am grateful to them all. I would like to thank Ourania 
Bessi, Erol Köroğlu, Yalçın Armağan and Kesibe Karaosmanoğlu who very kindly 
provided me with useful material and information and facilitated access to research 
material.
Special thanks also are due to Zeynep and Salih Zeki Sayar, Katerina Drossou and 
Takis Koutsoyiannopoulos and my children Dimitris, Christos and Koula for their 
support in so many different ways as well as to Sibel Kocaer for helping me to 
decipher the manuscripts at the early stages of my research.
At the Gennadius Library I am indebted to Maria Georgopoulou, Natalia Vogeikoff-
Brogan, Leda Costaki and Eleftheria Valeziou for making the Myrivilis and Venezis 
archives available to me and for their personal interest in my research.
I am also grateful to Sevengül Sönmez for entrusting me with original material from 
the vast Karaosmanoğlu archives relevant to my research and to my special interest 
in Yakup Kadri. I am also indebted to my friend Polymnia Athanassiadi for reading 
the whole draft of my thesis, for her corrections and valuable suggestions. 

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