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CHAPTER 8 – YABAN, KADRO, ANKARA 
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This makes perfect sense against the record of Yakup Kadri’s literary activity, since 
there is a four year gap between the publication of 
Sodom ve Gomore 
in 1928 and the 
publication of 
Yaban
.
Yaban,
as already stated, was first published in 1932. I have a copy of the first 
edition which confusingly bears the date “1932” on the flyleaf but “1933” on the 
frontispiece. According to the publication history, as set out on the back of the 
flyleaf of the current editions of the novel
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, there was no second printing of the first 
edition. It was followed by a second edition in 1942 of which I have a copy of the 
third printing dated 1945. This is prefaced by two pages of translated reviews from 
the German press, including, somewhat disconcertingly, the 
Völkischer Beobachter 
whose Nazi associations are disguised by the description “yarı resmî Fırka organı” 
(semi official Party organ)
4
. These reviews are followed by the preface cited above 
from Yakup Kadri himself, which incorporates an article written during the war and 
which is here given the title: ‘Barbarların Yaktığı Köyler Ahalisine’ (To the People 
of the Villages Burnt Down by the Barbarians)
5
. This second edition is said to have 
had nine printings the last of which was in 1970. In that very year Jacobson records
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Yakup Kadri telling him that the ninth printing came out recently without notice to 
him and that it contained too many misprints, which he wanted corrected. It is not 
clear to me whether each printing of the second edition was reset and accordingly 
whether or not the misprints of which Yakup Kadri complained were in every 
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I have referred throughout to what is labelled as the 54
th
printing in 2006 of what appears to be the 4
th
edition 
which is said to have been first issued in 1983. 
4
Karaosmanoğlu 1945, 5-6 
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“Barbarların” has replaced the “Yunanlıların” of the original publication of 1932.
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Jacobson, 93 

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