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CHAPTER 6 – VURUN KAHPEYE 
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against them and in favour of the government of Ferit Pasha in Istanbul. While Hacı 
Fettah Efendi preaches fiercely against the nationalists in the square outside the 
mosque on a Friday after Prayers, Aliye marches in the village with the school 
children holding home made Turkish flags and singing nationalistic marches against 
the foreign enemy. Hacı Fettah likens the nationalists to the infidel enemy on the 
grounds of their dress and their clean shaven faces and goes as far as to say that they 
would accept as their governor anybody, whoever he may be, who will protect their 
mosques and their religion. This phrase prepares the reader for the treason that is to 
come. Hacı Fettah’s physical description here is contrasted with that of the mosque: 
the mosque stands imposingly opposite him like an ancient statue; the image 
successfully depicts the contrast between good and evil. The description of his 
audience also as a black mass conveys the notion of a threatening and confused lot. It 
is in this scene that the other main hero of the book makes his appearance: Tosun 
Bey with his men enter on horseback and immediately his eyes meet with Aliye’s 
eyes in a golden cloud in front of the afternoon sun. They fall in love immediately. 
Tosun Bey stays as a guest at Ömer Efendi’
s
house but Aliye purposely avoids an 
encounter in the house, as custom required in those days even for a progressive 
woman like her. Tosun Bey asks Aliye
 
to become his wife and with Ömer Efendi’s
 
consent they get engaged. Tosun Bey leaves the town to fight the enemy while Hacı 
Fettah and Kantarcıların Uzun Hüseyin before the dawn go to the outskirts of the 
town where the enemy under the officer Damianos had their headquarters. Damianos 
has all the characteristics of a vulgar, tricky, drunken, lecherous, grasping enemy. To 
him the two men give away useful strategical information, declare that they support 
him, and ask him, when time comes, to leave Ali
y
e to them to punish her according 

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