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CHAPTER 6 – VURUN KAHPEYE 
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Anatolia. Most of those who went to Ankara to join Atatürk were faced for the first 
time with conditions which they could never have imagined. The war had, of course, 
added to the misery. Anatolia had already been a subject of poems in the recent past, 
but this novel are among the first prose works to describe the place and its people. 
Halide puts what she must take to be an Anatolian idiom into the mouths of some of 
the characters but it is unlikely to be accurate
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.
In 
Vurun Kahpeye
the language used is grammatically peculiar and makes reading 
somewhat more difficult; however this does not spoil the pleasure of reading: 
although the plot is quite predictable from the opening chapters the style is gripping.
It is worth mentioning here that the language of the original text in Ottoman Turkish 
is different from the modernised version: 
Urun Kahpeye
becomes 
Vurun
Kahpeye
, 
but this does not change the meaning; but the word, 
Yunan
(“Greek”), of the original 
is replaced by 
düşman
(“enemy”) in the 1995 edition throughout the whole book. 
To conclude, the novel conveys in a simple way what the author conceives as vital 
messages for the citizens of a new modern and independent national state, in which 
new values contrary to those of the old order are celebrated: apart from the overt 
nationalism exhibited in 
Vurun Kahpeye
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, the importance of education for the people, 
justice and equality among the citizens, the enhanced position of women as well as 
their indispensable role in society and the significance of the lives of children. All 
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Adıvar 1995, 14, Aliye even uses it herself when, in her fury she wants to make sure she is understood by the 
villain Uzun Hüseyin . 
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The impressions of war were still fresh , so one can see why 
Vurun Kahpeye 
became popular.

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