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CHAPTER 4 – HALIDE EDIP AND YAKUP KADRI 
103 
re-published with an introduction by Sibel Erol confusingly under the title 
The 
House with Wisteria
which is a translation of the Turkish version’s title but the text 
is identical to that of the 1926 English original
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. In 2005 a fascimile edition of this 
original was published with an introduction by Hülya Adak
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. 
The second part of her autobiography appeared in 1928 in a serialised form in 
Asia 
under the title 
My Share in the Turkish Ordeal
and appeared in a book form later in 
the same year as 
The Turkish Ordeal.
The Turkish version of the book which is not 
an exact translation of the original, was published first in instalments in 
Hayat
(Life)
 
in 1959 and then as a book under the title 
Türk’ün Ateşle İmtihanı 
(The Turk’s 
Ordeal by Fire) in 1962
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.
Halide Edip was born in Istanbul. The year of her birth is variously reported as 1882
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or 1884
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. Her father, Mehmet Edip Bey had been brought up in Salonica. He was a 
highly educated man who held a position at the 
Ceyb-i hümâyun
(Privy Purse)
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of 
Abdülhamid II. At different times he also served in Yanya (in Epirus Northern 
Greece now) and Bursa. He had a number of wives, as was the custom in those 
times, and a number of children, none of whom shared a mother. Halide Edip’s 
mother died when Halide was very young
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. Both her father’s polygyny and the loss 
of her mother seem to have made Halide an unhappy child
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. Apart from living in her 
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Adıvar 2003, xiii 
3
Adıvar 2005 
4
Adak 2003, 524 differences between the two versions discussed. 
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Adıvar 2005, v 
6
Kudret II, 63 and Kurdakul II, 68 
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Adıvar 2005, vi 
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Adıvar 2005, 4-6 
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Adıvar 2005, 155-6 

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