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CHAPTER 7 – ERGENEKON 
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It should have become clear from these examples that there is a demonstrable 
continuity of conception between 
Ergenekon 
and 
Yaban. Ergenekon,
though, is just a 
collection of articles where the reader can see Yakup Kadri saying different things 
on different occasions. One article can praise Mustafa Kemal
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: another can exalt 
victories in the War of Independence
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; a third can abuse traitors and defeatists
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; a 
fourth can laud the spirit of Anatolia
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; a fifth can urge an approach to the people so 
that its physical and spiritual living standards can be raised
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; and a sixth can urge 
institutional modernisation on the basis of national and democratic principles
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. But 
the war was now over and the traitors and defeatists had been defeated. It was not 
enough to say, as is said in 
Ergenekon, 
that Turkey was aiming at neither capitalism 
nor communism
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. The question of whether modernisation, which in the 
circumstances was to mean Westernisation, could be reconciled with fidelity to the 
native outlook still remained. This question had preoccupied Yakup Kadri since the 
start of his literary career in different ways. They could have a purely literary 
dimension as in his Nev Yunanîlik period or a social one as in his novels whose 
settings spanned the entire period of state directed Westernisation in Turkey. In a 
collection of articles he could praise the Anatolian spirit in one and urge 
modernisation in another. Could the former survive if the latter were imposed? 
Could the latter be imposed at all against the grain of the former? To answer it 
Yakup Kadri resorted once again to fiction. In its profound ambivalence which 
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Karaosmanoğlu 1973, 59-61
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Karaosmanoğlu 1973, 42-47
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Karaosmanoğlu 1973, 7-9
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Karaosmanoğlu 1973, 17-20
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Karaosmanoğlu 1973, 94-97 
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Karaosmanoğlu 1973, 34-35
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Karaosmanoğlu 1973, 90-91 

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