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CHAPTER 7 – ERGENEKON 
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leaned over me, with deep anxiety in her eyes, and put her hand on my 
forehead.
Why did I recall her again at this moment? Oh, fair phantom, what 
business have you here? You cannot walk over these stones. You can’t 
touch this unplanned door with your hand. You can’t sit on these stone-
hard benches. It is dirty and smells bad around here. These black piles 
you see in the hearth are the ashes of the thing called cow dung, a word 
you have heard only in proverbs. My ever-clean, fair mother, always 
fastidious and smelling of soap, I can’t imagine here. I can’t keep you 
here a second.
The theme of the passionate Anatolian who suffers or goes mad because of love is 
personified in 
Yaban 
by Süleyman who melts out of his passionate love for his 
adulterous wife Cennet, goes almost mad and eventually disappears
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. The quite 
unexpected comparison with Spain in ‘Anadolu’nun İçyüzü’ is reflected in 
Yaban 
by 
a comparison of Don Quixote with the Oriental mystics and his love for Dulcinea 
appears as a prototype of Ahmet Celal’s infatuation with the village girl, Emine
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Alongside these direct reflections there is an oblique refraction of another element. 
In contrast to the passages in 
Ergenekon 
which laud the tekkes and the dervishes and 
the muezzins, the only şeyh who appears in 
Yaban 
is a charlatan. Nonetheless, an 
apostrophe to the land of Anatolia is formulated in quite mystical terms: “On your 
breast, a man will reach a legendary heroism, or arrive at the level of modesty and 
self-sacrifice of the most divine friends of Allah.” This is followed by a quotation of 
three lines about the dervish heart from Yunus Emre
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Karaosmanoğlu 2006, 65, 91, 95-96
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Karaosmanoğlu 2006, 60
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Karaosmanoğlu 2006, 66, Jacobson, 73 

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