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 ............... in the di, di, dish, 
………...in the ai, in the ai, in the air 
the voice of those singing the folk song rises and overpowers the sound 
of the orchestra and the ceiling of Pınarbaşı starts to rumble like a davul 
(a special big drum).
Obviously absurd scenes like this together with a social and cultural life which is not 
very different from the spirit of a Soviet May Day Parade may suggest that Yakup 
Kadri had at least some ambivalence about this vision of the future. His words of 
1964 have to be given their due weight but their main point was the persistence in 
his view of the false and superficial westernisation ridiculed in the second part. He 

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obviously wanted to supersede this state and was disappointed that it had not been 
superseded. The most plausible explanation of both the absurdly perfect and the 
absurdly ridiculous elements of the third part seems to be that with an artist’s 
intuition Yakup Kadri could draw a 
reductio ad absurdum
of where a Kemalist 
model of modernisation could lead. A Black Sea song about anchovies sounding like 
The Marseillaise says it all.
Yaban in the light of Kadro and Ankara 
At an early point in 
Yaban 
Ahmet Celal exclaims
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: 
Talim, terbiye, iyi örnek, bunların hepsi geçici şeylerdir.Ve çevre 
değiştirmedikçe, insanın değişmesine imkan yoktur. Bu küçük 
mulahazadan, Türkiye’deki yenilik ve garpçılık hareketlerin, neden 
başarsızlığa uğradığı sorununa kadar çıkabiliriz. 
Instruction, education, good manners are transitory things and it is not 
possible for the individual to be transformed for the better while the 
environment remains unchanged. From this anodyne remark we can 
address the issue of understanding why all the movements for reform and 
westernisation in Turkey have ended in failure. 
Although Ahmet Celal here sounds like a Kadroist before his time, his own case is 
meant to exemplify the failure of the old intelligentsia and his physical incapacity 
could be interpreted as an objective correlative of this failure. Educated, deeply 
familiar with Western and Turkish literature and very concerned at a certain level for 
the villagers he can do nothing for them and to him they appear expressionless, like a 
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