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CHAPTER 8 – YABAN, KADRO, ANKARA 
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the next issue. Vedat Nedim boldly introduces 
Yaban 
as “the most powerful work in 
Turkish literature of the last period and yet the most original one in its field”. In the 
same introductory paragraph Vedat Nedim declares that 
Yaban 
is “the manifestation 
of the new generation’s alertness and vivacity” and further on he claims that the 
“generation of the revolution… is exposed to all sorts of assaults (
hücüm
) and 
reproaches (
itap
) by the old intelligentsia of the constitutional period who had never 
experienced such distinctiveness (
şahsiyetlilik
) and originality (
orijinallik
) in the 
works of its time”.
Vedat Nedim selects an article by someone who seems to be an ordinary reader from 
a provincial town and who expresses his great appreciation for the literary merits of 
the novel which brings to the fore the problems faced by the neglected Anatolians 
while at the same time emphasising the great strength of the peasantry which 
Kemalism regards as the Master of the country. To paraphrase him, Ta. Hay. thinks 
that the harsh descriptions and characterisations of Anatolia and the Anatolian 
peasant in 
Yaban 
reveal the reality of the neglected Anatolia. He is critical of “the 
Turkish intellectual (
okumuş
) and wonders: “are all these learned ones not suddenly 
seeing themselves above and separate from the masses?” He also asks “what the 
difference between the intellectual and an alien (
yaban
) in this country (
diyar
) is.” 
Again, in Ta. Hay.’s words “the War of Independence itself was a struggle between 
local and aliens. and Yakup’s book is its symbol. Nutuk represents the will power of 
our struggle and the alien is its expression”. He then addresses Yakup Kadri:
Kalemin kırılsın, Usta! Niçin bizi tatlı münevverlik uykumuzdan 
uyandırıyorsun? Niçin bizi hülyalarımızla başbaşa bırakmıyorsun? Niçin 

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