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another part of them reveals what exactly will happen with the truth of a voice from 
heaven.. . 
None of them were a failure in duty. All of their strengths and weaknesses belong to 
the extraordinary atmosphere of the revolution or epoch which we call National 
Struggle. 
This was an exceptional harvest season; it came and passed and every soul gave the 
most beautiful fruit during it.
 
 
I publish Ergenekon hoping that it will be a document of this period’s 
sentimental and intellectual history”
. 
Today can I say the same? From one point of view yes , from another no. Yes; 
because I still feel inside me the sacred fire of the National Struggle and I believe 
that I had written the articles of this book with the dash “a power above my will” 
gave me. No; because I cannot say that I do not find any of them strange or that “they 
are fresh and seasonal as if they were written only yesterday”. 
But this is a story of half a century.
“Ergenekon” is essentially the name of a 
fairytale. 
As for the National Struggle, it is the Grey Wolf’s epic. Had we really lived this 
period? 
I, who now being a poor old man try to float in the filthy waters of demagogy and 
close my ears to the buzzing noise of the street crowds, was it really I who once 

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showed the courage to thrust my pen against the enemy’s bayonets? Was I really the 
author of the pieces which were pierced by these bayonets? Do I still hold people like 
İsmet Pasha whom I promoted to the legendary heroic rank after Mustafa Kemal , to 
the same exalted rank? Alas! 
Now I will answer all these questions with Atatürk’s words who following the 
victory of İzmir told us: “I am like someone who has been in a dream”. 
A dream. Yes, a big beautiful dream. I leave its interpretation to you, my dear 
readers’. 
Ankara, 5 February 1964, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu 
Epilogue
The articles I collected under the title ‘Ergenekon’ finish here. As I mentioned at the 
beginning of the book these writings are a small part of articles which appeared in 
‘İkdam’ during the National Struggle