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CHAPTER 7 – ERGENEKON 
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as a collection of her stories 
Dağa Çıkan Kurt 
in the same year, and also novels by 
Peyami Safa (
Süngülerin Gölgesinde 
- In the Shadow of the Bayonets, 1924), 
Ercüment Ekrem 
(Kan ve İman – 
Blood and Faith, 1925) and Aka Gündüz (
Dikmen 
Yıldızı 
- The Star of Dikmen, 1927). In the same year as 
Sodom ve Gomore
there 
appeared 
Yeşil Gece 
(Green Night) by Reşat Nuri and
 Acılar
(Sorrows) by Agâh 
Sırrı
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It is not that Yakup Kadri neglected the national cause in the war years. His pen was 
put to vigorous service in its support in the newspapers, particularly 
İkdam.
These 
articles are obviously written by a very good writer and not a hack journalist but they 
are not creative literature. And we have seen that when in 1921 Anatolia inspired 
Yakup Kadri to write a novel, the draft included a soliloloquy expressing inner 
torment and its conclusion did not concern the war but the relationship between the 
narrator and another character with their respective mothers. 
Yakup Kadri’s next book after 
Sodom ve Gomore 
was not a novel but a selection of 
the articles he wrote in the war years. This appeared in 1929
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as 
Ergenekon Millî 
Mücadele Yazıları. 
Another three years were to pass before his next novel, 
Yaban, 
which is generally regarded as the preeminent Kurtuluş novel, itself succeeded by 
Ankara.
I will suggest in this chapter that the three books should be considered 
together and that their principal underlying theme is the lost hopes which were born 
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Özerdim, 123 
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The date of the first edition, which I have been unable to locate, is uncertain. A footnote to the epilogue of the 
1964 edition says that the epilogue was written for the first edition in 1928. But in the preface to the same edition 
of 1964 Yakup Kadri says that the first publication was 35 years before, ie 1929. The original preface, moreover, 
states that the articles collected in the volume had been written seven or eight years before that, ie 1921 and 1922, 
as indeed they were (See Appendix 3). 

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