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CHAPTER 7 – ERGENEKON 
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Perhaps more bitingly Halide Edip also records moments of despair and indecision 
during the Battle of Sakarya
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. Hülya Adak, while she can supply no documentary 
evidence of this intention, convincingly sees 
The Turkish Ordeal 
as a response to 
Mustafa Kemal’s 
Nutuk
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. 
Halide Edip could acknowledge Mustafa Kemal’s importance despite or even 
because of the faults she discerned
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. In contrast to her Yakup Kadri never wavered in 
the expression of total admiration for Mustafa Kemal, an admiration which bordered 
on adulation. He is overwhelmed by his first meeting with Mustafa Kemal in 
Ankara. He would tell his grandchild, he writes on 17th July 1921, that the most 
glorious day of his life was the one when in his youth he broke bread with Mustafa 
Kemal
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. On 5th February 1964 he regrets ever putting İsmet Pasha in a rank below 
Mustafa Kemal, who stands above everyone
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. In words written in 1928 or 1929 he 
says that he had been transfigured by a voice, obviously Mustafa Kemal’s, from the 
Anatolian uplands and he prays that he will find the noble hero who will take him to 
the right path
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. After the convulsions of 1926 Yakup Kadri remained faithful to the 
revised Kemalist line, which traced its source, unadulterated by traitors and doubters, 
to the very origins of the Resistance. The discrediting of every opponent of Mustafa 
Kemal as a traitor or a doubter may explain the tone of 
Sodom ve Gomore
whose 
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Adıvar 1928, 297. This is almost all missing from the Turkish version: Adıvar 2007, 171 
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Adak 2003, 510 
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Adıvar 1928, 189 
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Karaosmanoğlu 1973, 61 
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Karaosmanoğlu 1973, 6, see Appendix 4 
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Karaosmanoğlu 1973, 227, see Appendix 4

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