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CHAPTER 4 – HALIDE EDIP AND YAKUP KADRI 
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Among his earliest publications were translations from the French in the Cairo 
newspaper, 
Türk
, which was also the immediate source of his knowledge of the 
Young Turks
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. 
Just as Halide Edip’s moment of ‘becoming a writer’ occurred in 1909, so did Yakup 
Kadri’s with two publications: the play 
Nirvana
, which was published in the journal 
Resimli Kitap
(The Illustrated Book’, No. 9, June 1325/1909) and soon after, his 
second piece which appeared in 
Musavver Muhit 
(The Illustrated Environment, No. 
36-37,10 July 1325/1909).
An interesting point raised by Hasan-Âli Yücel regarding these two pieces is the 
theme of 
mevcudiyet-i milliye
(national existence) which appears in these two pieces 
and Yakup Kadri’s ’s sensitivity about his homeland. Hasan-Âli Yücel further 
stresses though, that these two pieces had no political colour at all. They are 
interesting because they show the appearance at this early stage of a theme with 
which Yakup Kadri was preoccupied throughout his life and work and which, I 
would add, finds one of its utmost eloquent expressions, if not desperate ones, in 
Yaban. 
This theme is the individual juxtaposed with society, the solitary juxtaposed 
with the community, the longing for a home
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. A short excerpt is indicative of the 
style if nothing else
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: 
Aziz Türkiye’den uzak geçen iki senelik bir ömr-i hüsran ve gurbetin 
sonu bütün ruhumu kaplayan derin bir maraz-ı vatanî, geçen sene, 
Haziran iptidalarında beni Istanbul’a sevk etmişti. 
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Yücel, 17-26 
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Yücel, 33, 37 
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Yücel, 32 

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