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CHAPTER 5 – TWO SHIRTS OF FLAME 
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Apart from the thematic similarity it is significant that in 
The Turkish Ordeal 
the 
episode presented above immediately succeeds the paragraph in which Yakup Kadri 
tells Halide Edip that he is writing an Anatolian novel called 
Ateşten Gömlek 
and she 
replies that she will finish it first
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All these similarities taken together suggest that the exchanges of Halide Edip and 
Yakup Kadri in the summer of 1921 went much further than the mere title. Another 
pointer in the same direction is the very different narrative form of Halide Edip’s 
subsequent Kurtuluş novel, 
Vurun Kahpeye.
This is a straightforward third person 
narrative. My tentative conclusion would be that the narrative form and even the 
thematic device of the dying man was suggested to Halide Edip by Yakup Kadri. It 
remains unclear why Yakup Kadri did not publish his own 
Ateşten Gömlek
except for 
a short passage. What is probable, however, from the mere existence of his 
Ateşten 
Gömlek 
and a terminus for the dating of at least a part of it to early January 1922, is 
that his words to 
Milliyet 
should not be taken as implying that 
Yaban, 
as we have it, 
was conceived as early as 1921. There are nonetheless parallels between these two 
works of Yakup Kadri which will be explored below.
In Halide Edip’s 
Ateşten Gömlek 
the principal characters have symbolic significance. 
The narrator, Peyami, is a cultured Ottoman, who served in the Foreign Ministry and 
had lived abroad. His friend, İhsan, is a professional soldier who served in the 
Ottoman Army in the Gallipoli campaign. They are both enamoured of Peyami’s 
cousin, Ayşe (spelt Ayesha by Halide in the English version), who is a paragon of 
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