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CHAPTER 4 – HALIDE EDIP AND YAKUP KADRI 
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from the East which were published under the title 
Alp Dağlarından
(From the 
Alps)
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. 
In 1927 he published the novel 
Hüküm Gecesi
(Night of Judgment) whose theme is 
political differences in the Meşrutiyet and in 1928 
Sodom ve Gomore
which is set in 
Istanbul in the Armistice period. It is notable that the chronological order of 
publication of 
Kiralık Konak, Hüküm Gecesi 
and 
Sodom ve Gomore
also reflects 
their dramatic dates which follow the successive fortunes of Turkey from the 
Tanzimat to the Allied occupation. In 1929 he reissued a selection of articles 
originally written for 
İkdam 
between 1920 and 1922 in two volumes entitled 
Egenekon I 
and 
II
. These publications are the subject of Chapter 7. 
In 1928 he was appointed to the Committee formed to work out the transition to the 
Latin script
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. In 1929 there took place the well known spat between Yakup Kadri 
and Nazım Hikmet which culminated with the publication by Nazım Nikmet of an 
article entitled ‘
Putları Yıkıyoruz’
(Demolishing the Idols) in 
Resimli Ay
(Illustrated 
Monthly
)
. This title was then used for a series of polemical articles and divided the 
literary world into two camps: the progressives of 
Resimli Ay, Hareket 
(Motion) and 
Akşam 
(Evening) versus the traditionalists, who enjoyed the support of conservative 
newspapers like 
Milliyet 
(Nation) and 
İkdam. 
The second instalment of 
‘Demolishing the Idols’ appeared on 1July 1929 in which Nazım Hikmet disputed 
the credentials of Mehmet Emin, the national poet. In the same issue Nazım Hikmet 
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Esen 1989, 83-88 stresses the importance of these essays on the East versus West problem of Turkish culture 
and finds them still valid for our understanding it.
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Geoffrey Lewis, 33 

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