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CHAPTER 6 – VURUN KAHPEYE 
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to Şeriat on the grounds that she had improper relations with Tosun Bey. Soon after 
the enemy enters the town panic spreads everywhere. Ömer Efendi is captured and 
Aliye asks Damianos in her usual brave and straightforward manner to let her 
adoptive father go. Naturally Damianos is also struck by her beauty; he too desires 
her and so agrees. He would do anything she would ask him. Here the enemy 
becomes even more despicable: he even forgets his patriotic duties before a beautiful 
woman and asks her to marry him! After various turns of the plot Aliye purports to 
agree, her true purpose being to divert Tosun Bey away from her and back to his 
patriotic duties. But at the vital moment the nationalist forces enter the town, the 
surprised enemy flees in panic and Aliye finds the right moment to escape. Aliye is 
physically and psychologically totally exhausted. From there Hacı Fettah and 
Kantarcıların Hüseyin drag her out before the mosque where she is lynched. 
Eventually, however, order returns and the traitors are tried by the 
İstiklâl 
Mahkemesi
(the Independence Tribunal) which were functioning at the time and 
hanged in the square where they killed Aliye. Tosun Bey makes a final appearance as 
a crippled victor. 
The characterisation of 
Vurun Kahpeye
is not subtle. Aliye is a beautiful high minded 
self sacrificing heroine. Tosun Bey is handsome and brave. Ömer Efendi is a good 
father figure, his physical description fitting perfectly with his good fatherly nature. 
Damianos is a pure villain. Hacı Fettah is a repulsive traitor. The plot also looks quite 
simple and clichéed but the scenes described are very vivid and the messages 
conveyed very patriotic. In the end it is a woman who suffers more than anyone; it is 
she who is stronger and ready to sacrifice her honour which is more precious than her 

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