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CHAPTER 5 – TWO SHIRTS OF FLAME 
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will write that novel before you have finished yours.’”
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The prologue to the novel 
itself which antedates 
The Turkish Ordeal 
(1928) is an open letter addressed to 
Yakup Kadri and tells a slightly different story in which she first shrinks from taking 
from him “the just expression of what happened there [Anatolia]” but then realises 
that “those who wear your ‘Shirt of Flame’ are not mine”.
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. She concludes the 
preface as follows
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:
I ask your forgiveness Yakup Kadri for taking this name which in itself 
expresses so much. If the name is stronger than the book it is not my 
fault. 
 If time does not extinguish my “Shirt of Flame,” there will be two stories 
of the same name and fifty years hence on the same shelf they may find 
their tongues like the toys in the story of Hans Andersen and relate to 
each other the days gone by. Who knows – perhaps the Shirt of Flame 
which the youth of the coming days may wear, will be different from ours. 
For his part, in an interview given to 
Milliyet
on the occasion of the death of Halide 
Edip in 1964 Yakup Kadri said that he had wanted to write 
Ateşten Gömlek 
but he 
gave in to her request to use the title herself. Yakup Kadri says: “Bunun üzerinedir 
ki, zaferden sonra o Ateşten Gömlek ben de Ankara ile Yaban romanlarını 
yazmıştım.” (It is for this reason that after the victory she wrote 
The Shirt of Flame 
and I wrote
 Yaban
and 
Ankara
)
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. As this was said more than forty years later, it may 
not be surprising that Yakup Kadri’s chronology is slightly mistaken: the 
serialisation of Halide Edip’s novel began some weeks before the final victory in the 
War of Independence.
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Adıvar 1928, 256. 
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Adıvar 1924, xx 
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Adıvar 1924, xxii 
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Yücebaş 119,
 Milliyet
: 12.1.1964: ‘Büyük Dostum Halide Edip’ 

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