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CHAPTER 7 – ERGENEKON 
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permeates every detail of the structure of this great work 
Yaban 
suggests that he 
could not.

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CHAPTER 8 – YABAN, KADRO, ANKARA 
233 
In an interview on 28
th
March 1970 Yakup Kadri told Jacobson that
 Yaban
was 
“based on visits to hundreds of villages while [he] served on the War Crimes 
Commission during the War of Liberation”
1
. He did not then say when the novel was 
actually written. Yakup Kadri’s statement to 
Milliyet
that, having given up the title 
Ateşten Gömlek 
to Halide Edip, he wrote 
Yaban 
and 
Ankara 
instead, could be taken 
in isolation as implying that he wrote them at more or less the same time as she 
wrote 
Ateşten Gömlek
. The similarities between the use of a framing device and a 
first person narration in purported note book form between Halide Edip’s 
Ateşten 
Gömlek
and 
Yaban
together with the authors’ documented interaction in 1921 could 
make it tempting to conjecture that Yakup Kadri conceived something like 
Yaban 
at 
that time and that its form was the inspiration for Halide Edip. However, the 
discovery of fragments of an 
Ateşten Gömlek 
by Yakup Kadri with very similar 
formal features dispenses with the need to posit the existence of even a proto-
Yaban
at that time. Yakup Kadri’s statement to 
Milliyet
should be understood as a remark 
about the nature or the theme of the work. 
Yaban 
is certainly an Anatolian novel and 
its narrator certainly wears a “Shirt of Flame.” Moreover Yakup Kadri’s preface of 
1942 to the second edition of 
Yaban
plainly implies that it was written ten to eleven 
years after he was first stirred by his visits to the ruined villages in Central Anatolia.
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1
Jacobson, 94 
2
Karaosmanoğlu 2006, 14, which does not print the date of the preface. The date appears in Karaosmanoğlu 
1945, 12

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