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CHAPTER 4 – HALIDE EDIP AND YAKUP KADRI 
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Truly, even though I know that Mustafa Kemal would threaten for the 
thing he wanted, I was sure that he did not tell me this to threaten me.
After this we started talking in a natural way.
Here, this is the only intercourse resembling a dispute with Mustafa 
Kemal Pasha. 
I thought a lot that evening. I kept on remembering what Mustafa Kemal 
Pasha had sometime back said about the indivisibility of power. But I 
was sure that, if he had the power in his hands, he would do what he 
wanted. However, because I knew how important and indispensable his 
position was I decided to set aside these feelings of mine.
I believed that Mustafa Kemal would save the country.
Still, being sure that Mustafa Kemal would not forget this small incident 
I decided to write it in English. 
Halide Edip’s critical stance is explicitly set out in the English version at great 
length and significantly toned down in terms of content and length in the 
Turkish. 
With regards to her autobiographies and their relation with her Kurtuluş novels 
the following points are worth examining: her relationship with Greece, Greek 
culture, and the Greeks as enemies, the refugees both 
muhacirs 
and 
mubadils
and her humanitarian and anti-war feelings in general.
It can be conjectured from her 
Memoirs
that she was acquainted with Greek 
ways
 
through her short attendance in a Greek nursery school and through her 
encounters with Rum neighbours in the Christian neighbourhood where she 
was living. She obviously spoke some Greek. But there is no other explicit 
indication about any further interest in Greek literature, ancient or modern. Her 
knowledge of Greek and her anti-war feelings are expressed in 
The Turkish 

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