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CHAPTER 7 – ERGENEKON 
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associated with the Liberal party; had they resisted, the Greeks would have been 
dispersed
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. The Greeks are, of course, an unworthy enemy but this seems to give 
Yakup Kadri no difficulty in hailing the second battle of İnönü as an even greater 
historical accomplishment than the fall of Rome or the conquest of Istanbul
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: 
İsmet Pasha, the hero of İnönü, says that from Metristepe he sees this 
scene: “an enemy detachment withdrawing steadily others following at 
close range. Bozöyük is burning; the enemy abandoned the battlefield 
filled with thousands of dead”. And in a telegram sent to him, the hero of 
Anafartalar Mustafa Kemal Pasha concludes: “I would like to say that 
the hill you are standing on shows you a field of glory filled with 
thousands of corpses of the enemy; it also displays and prevails a rising 
splendour of a horizon of a future for ourselves and our nation”. Yes, this 
hill, is not only dominant and equal to the field which embraces the 
spiritual vastness of the great Turkish world, it dominates and raises our 
wide horizon to an extent that our imagination cannot perceive. This 
horizon is already crimson with the redness of the dawn. Some think that 
it has been painted with the blood of the martyrs and turn away their 
frightened eyes; but this is the colour of the good news that the sun had 
sent us from beyond during our long wait inside the eternal dark. The 
hero of Anafartalar defines it as rising splendour. Which means that we 
are at the start of a rise. This elevation, this rebirth, this dawn… These 
words are not great enough to honour the victory at İnönü. Hey lofty 
event; no pen and no tongue can describe your love (
mahabat
) and your 
greatness. Because, neither the fall of Rome, nor the conquest of 
Istanbul, nor any other of the historical events which resulted into ground 
breaking paths in the humankind’s history reached a level to be measured 
against your height. On 31 March of the year 1337 the sword of a 
commander in chief in the name of İsmet Pasha split history into two like 
the sword of the commander in chief five hundred years before him. 
Five, six days ago a new epoch opened for all the world in the East and 
for all Asia. This holy continent, shakes from within after hundreds of 
years’ sleep. All the motherland’s martyrs raise their heads from their 
graves, the old holy bodies which are one with the place where for years 
winds blow from the northern climates, emerge, break the iron and steel 
chains of the wronged nations and leap out from the prisons of darkness. 
One of the Rum newspapers in our city wrote recently that “the shame 
which is called the Eastern Question will at last be drowned in the sea of 
blood in front of Eskişehir.” How right it was! Yes, what it said became 
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Karaosmanoğlu 1973, 170-171
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Karaosmanoğlu 1973, 44-47: ‘İnönü Zaferi Yahut Metristepeden Görülen Şeyler’ (The Victory of İnönü or the 
Things Seen from Metristepe),
 
6 April 1921 

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