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CHAPTER 5 – TWO SHIRTS OF FLAME 
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characters find themselves in a desert far away from everything and everyone 
(Fragment B). The Anatolian landscape with its grey villages far from any other 
place forgotten oppressed and oppressive (Fragment A) is a physical representation 
of the emotions of the characters. It is exactly the world of 
Yaban.
As Halide Edip 
perceived
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, Yakup Kadri created an Anatolian novel from his inner self, not from 
the passing circumstances of the war.
Fragment A ends with a long rumination on the condition of women which can be 
compared to one of Ahmet Celal’s more briefly expressed thoughts in 
Yaban
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. The 
female condition is a consistent preoccupation of Yakup Kadri. The longing for 
maternal love in Fragment C is consistent with Ali Serdar’s
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contention about the 
attachment to their mothers which he finds in the protagonists of 
Hüküm Gecesi, Bir 
Sürgün 
and 
Yaban.
One of Yakup Kadri’s earliest published short stories 
Baskın
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contains an episode very similar to that of Fragment A in which a crowd of angry 
townspeople break into the house of an adulterous woman
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. His valedictory novel 
Hep O Şarkı
(Always the Same Ballad, 1956) presents a story of unfulfilled love set 
in the Istanbul of the Tanzimat period in a narration from the mouth of the female 
sufferer.
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Adıvar 1924, xx 
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Karosmanoğlu 2006, 57, Jacobson 59-60 
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See Chapter 4 above 
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Kudret II, 112-116
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See Chapter 4 above 

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CHAPTER 6 – VURUN KAHPEYE 
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The subject of this chapter is Halide Edip’s 
Vurun Kahpeye
(“Strike the Whore”). 
This first appeared in serialised form in the newspaper 
Akşam
in 1923 and then in 
book form in 1926. This was of course before the change of the alphabet. It is a short 
novel of about 140 pages whose plot unfolds in an unnamed Anatolian village during 
the War of Independence. The heroine is a teacher from Istanbul named Aliye – a 
significant choice of name because it means “exalted”, a suitable epithet for her 
moral qualities and eventual martyrdom. She has come to teach the new ways and 
ideas and confronts great difficulties: corrupt bureaucracy, superstition and religious 
fanaticism, the grip of reactionary and conservative notables, ignorance, poverty, 
abysmal living conditions, cruelty and injustice. The main weapons with which she 
confronts these difficulties are a strong character, a refusal to compromise, honesty, 
enthusiasm for what she wants to achieve, great courage and bravery, love both on a 
personal level and for society generally and a passion for the things she want to 
achieve. 
Aliye was an orphan from a young age (like the authoress herself, although Aliye has 
lost her father as well). She is a beautiful young woman, her visible beauty reflecting 
her spiritual inner beauty. 
Vurun Kahpeye
is an overtly nationalistic novel; not only 
does it take place during the War of Independence (with references to historical 

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