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CHAPTER 8 – YABAN, KADRO, ANKARA 
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In trying to answer how Yakup Kadri expressed his heartache in the form ostensibly 
of a war novel whose strongest theme is the divide between the Istanbul intellectual 
and the Anatolian peasant I suggest we focus on the year of publication, 1932, and 
look at Yakup Kadri’s next novel, 
Ankara
, published in 1934. Both novels were 
referred to together by Yakup Kadri in his remarks on 
Ateşten Gömlek
and their 
publication spans the life of the journal 
Kadro
of which Yakup Kadri was the 
responsible editor. In the journal Yakup Kadri itself named 
Yaban
and 
Ankara
together as examples of the revolutionary literature promoted by the movement
34
. 
Kadro 
Kadro was the name both of a movement and of its eponymous journal which was 
published by five intellectuals with left wing inclinations: Şevket Süreyya Aydemir, 
Burhan Αsaf Belge, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, İsmail Hüsev Tökin and Vedat 
Nedim Tör. The periodical appeared between January 1932 and December-January 
1934-1935
35
. Electronic copies of the whole journal are accessible through the 
relevant link of the University of Bonn and I have used them for my readings of 
Kadro
36
. 
Kadro 
was published with the permission of Mustafa Kemal, and its aim was to lead 
the classes according to the ideals of the revolution, and to instil in them the 
34
Tekin, Mansur: 
‘
Ankara
’
, 
Kadro
, 1934, Vol. 3, No. 28, p. 48
35
Türkeş, 1998, 93
36
 
http://digitale-sammlungen.ulb.uni-bonn.de/ulbbnioa/periodical/structure/3203852
 

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CHAPTER 8 – YABAN, KADRO, ANKARA 
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perception of republicanism. In Aydemir’s words Kadro should be the link between 
the revolutionary ideas and the people
 
37
:
Hulâsa Kadro, bir millî kurtuluş hareketinin, bir millî inkılâbın kumanda 
heyetidir. Onun, azlık, fakat, şuurlu öncüsü ve yöneticisidir. Inkılâbın tek 
idealist lideri etrafında toplanan “Kadro”dur...
In short, Kadro was a committee of the National Movement for 
Independence and had the leading role in the national revolution. They 
were a minority but they were its conscious pioneers and administrators. 
It is the Kadro which gathers around the revolution’s only party and 
around its idealistic and only leader… 
A summarised description of the 
Kadro 
journal and its aims is given by Türkeş
38
:
The Kadro movement took its name from the journal Kadro; the journal 
aspired to fulfil two self appointed tasks: to develop an ideological 
framework in which to interpret the Turkish revolution that had created 
the republican regime led by the President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and to 
suggest the economic policies that in accordance with this ideological 
framework, the regime should pursue in the future. …… Most of the 
journal’s regular writers had “leftist” backgrounds that had, on occasion, 
brought them into collision with the republican authorities. Kadro’s 
political loyalty to the regime was never in question, but within these 
limits, it exhibited a striking degree of intellectual independence.
It seems that Mustafa Kemal, who gave permission prior to the publication of the 
periodical, supported such a move. He was one of the paying subscribers to it along 
with İsmet İnönü
39
. The General secretary of the CHP Recep Peker was against them 
however.
37
Karataş, 278 quoting Aydemir, 227
38
Türkeş, 2001, 92 
39
Karataş, 277 

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