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They also were the first to rebel against the Greeks
. (the emphasis is mine) 

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CHAPTER 5 – TWO SHIRTS OF FLAME 
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This dialogue reflects real discussions about the formation of a regular army in the 
middle of 1920
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. Other discussions concern the future. Here İhsan is conversing 
with Peyami
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: 
--‘I’, he said, ‘always had the soul of a soldier, but I was raw youth. 
Later on, I was a little dandified and tried to look over civilized. I still 
love civilization and the beautiful things it produces. Somehow we are 
estranged from it. I do not believe we can keep our country merely by 
fighting and driving away the invaders. We must own our country as 
they, our enemies, own theirs. The classes must mingle and help the 
people and not allow the dominating classes to separate and stand like 
olive oil on the surface of the water. You will see,
Peyami; the army will be the force which will give an independent 
country back to the nation and teach her to own it.” 
--‘It is enough if we clear from the Greeks.’
--‘I want to dream to-night. It is not enough to conquer an open enemy. 
The army must open a great war against the dark things, old prejudices, 
traditions which make our people miserable and slaves to every tyrant, 
we must clean away these things. We must wash and cleanse our country 
morally. We often spoke of these things with sister Ayesha. She told me 
how beautiful and happy was Anatolia. After we drive out the Greeks we 
must reconstruct Anatolia, make it a worthy place to dwell in. We can 
never go back to Istanbul. 
Halide Edip correctly contrasts her approach with that of Yakup Kadri. He creates 
life “by delving into the inner depths of [his] own mind”; she “accepted the simple 
but glorious suffering of [her] comrades as simply as they and [she] found it”
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. Her 
Ateşten Gömlek 
is not a subtle novel. The framing device and the use of the first 
person do not produce anything beyond a four square narrative. She does not create 
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Gawrych, 108-109 
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Adıvar, 144-145 
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Adıvar 1924, xx-xxi 

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