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CHAPTER 8 – YABAN, KADRO, ANKARA 
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mad
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. He refuses to accompany the Nationalist forces in the direction of Ankara 
imagining that his presence will be like that of a tailless dog, which he remembered 
from his desert campaign
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. His reaction to a group of enemy soldiers provokes 
laughter
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. The great victory of Sakarya is unknown to him because he only observes 
the Greek army coming and going. The contrast with glorious and purposeful heroes 
of other Kurtuluş
 
novels such as İhsan in 
Ateşten Gömlek
and Tosun Bey in 
Vurun 
Kahpeye
is striking and I would argue, a deliberate authorial inversion of a Kurtuluş 
trope. 
The theme of alienation persists to the very last line of the novel which follows a 
delirious dream in the mind of Ahmet Celal. As the village girl, Emine, tries to tend 
his wound, Ahmet Celal imagines that the gap between the Turkish villager and the 
Turkish intellectual has been bridged
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:
I saw in my dream that not a sign remained of the painful problem 
between the Turkish intellectual and the Turkish villager. In my mind, 
Emine’s arms, like the limbs of a tree, bound me strong and fast to that 
hostile and strange world. All of my loathing, anger, hate, rebellion, and 
hopelessness that had given me hellish torture during the two or three 
years spent in the village, flowed away with the blood oozing from the
 
wound in my side. It’s as if the putrefaction within me is emptying from 
this hole.

And yet it is only a dream because a page later Emine cannot go on and Ahmet Celal 
heads off into the unknown. 
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Karaosmanoğlu 2006,130, 57 
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Karaosmanoğlu 2006, 132 
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Karaosmanoğlu 2006,172 
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Karaosmanoğlu 2006, 197, Jacobson, 254-255 

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