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CHAPTER 4 – HALIDE EDIP AND YAKUP KADRI 
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This article was written in order to praise Mehmet Tevfik Pasha’s book on Greek 
Mythology ‘Esatir-ı Yunaniyan’(Greek Mythology)
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Yahya Kemal’s most famous poems in his Nev-i Yunanîlik phase are 
Byblos 
Kadınları
(The Women of Byblos) and 
Sicilya Kadınları
(The Women of Sicily) 
which seem to be inspired by Mallarmé’s L’Après-midi d’un Faune (The Afternoon 
of a Faun, 1876).
Yakup Kadri’s works in the period when he espoused the Nev Yunanîlik included a 
series of articles in a dialogue form. One of them ‘Kır Mektupları’ (Letters from the 
Countryside) was published in 
İşhat 
(Witnessing) on 10 July 1330 (1914) and was 
dedicated to Yahya Kemal. Here, Yakup Kadri’s perception of a Mediterranean 
civilisation is put forward very clearly
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. Another dialogue with the title 
Siyah Saçlı 
Yabancı ile Berrak Gözlü Genç Kız Sözleri 
(Blackhaired Stranger and the Words of 
the Young Girl with the Sparkling Eyes) appeared in 
Nevsali Millî 
(National Youth) 
in 1914
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. This is a conversation between a young woman and a young lad who meet 
in the fields. Although these two people have the same age they seem to be separated 
by 25 centuries. The young lad is from Lydia, either from Manisa or from İzmir and 
has initially come from Asia. But the life described is the life of 2,500 years ago. 
Perhaps like the young girl he too drinks wine. One can easily recognise Yakup 
Kadri behind the young man with the dark hair and his longing to reach the secrets of 
ancient Greek culture. In Hasan-Âli Yücel’s view this conversation is a revolt 
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Yücel, 257 
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Karaosmanoğlu (1922)1946, 101-3 where part only of it was published, Yücel, 289-29 all of it.
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Yücel, 263-267 

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