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CHAPTER 8 – YABAN, KADRO, ANKARA 
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development and a rejection of superficial Westernisation both in culture and in 
economics. At the same time, in a way that resembles some of his articles in 
Ergenekon 
Yakup Kadri exposes the Westerners’ interference, hypocrisy and the 
bankruptcy of the capitalist world’s values and those of the League of Nations
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. He 
claims that Turkish intellectuals are certainly not unmoved by the Russian revolution 
and that the nations of the present day want to establish their independent state by 
themselves and without any foreign intervention.
Having presented the critics’ views on the contents of 
Kadro 
and the role of Yakup 
Kadri in it, Karataş discusses the connection of 
Ankara 
with 
Kadro
by juxtaposing 
extracts from the novel and specific articles in order to show that the views 
expressed in 
Ankara
are parallel to the ones expressed in 
Kadro
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Karataş quotes from articles which criticise once severe, brave and patriotic military 
young men of the war years who turn into corrupt or profiteering bureaucrats 
especially after their dealings with agents from the West; other articles criticise 
women who only superficially adopted western manners, remaining in essence 
ignorant made-up dolls, totally uninterested in the fledgling Republic’s public affairs 
in striking contrast with their contemporaries in Soviet Russia or Mussolini’s Italy 
(except for the Duce’s wife and daughter).
He concludes that both in the novel and in the articles the issue at hand is the internal 
enemy, internal forces which are an impediment to the realisation of the goals of the 
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‘Ankara-Moskova- Roma’, 
Kadro, 
June 1932, Vol. 1
, 
No 6, pp.37-40 
 
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Karataş, 282-287 

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