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CHAPTER 8 – YABAN, KADRO, ANKARA 
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The view of Aydemir was that the people could not grasp a system of ideas. It was 
beyond their everyday concerns. 
Kadro
should aim at specific goals which the 
people would be able to perceive and understand: “Hulâsa, inkılâp, halk için, fakat 
halka rağmen bir harekettir”
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. (In short, the revolution is a movement for the people 
despite the people).
Kadro 
supported state intervention in the economy and was against private initiative. 
It was at that point when there were efforts to establish the İş Bankası that 
Kadro
was shut down because it was seen as a threat. The state intervention promoted by 
the Kadroists would have according to themselves characteristics special to the 
Turkish nation and would not rely on the class struggle, on the clash between the 
bourgeoisie and the working classes. It would be different from both the capitalist 
and the socialist systems of other countries. The basis of this new system would be 
founded on the hegemony of the people but without having to go through the stage 
of capitalism
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.
In order to fulfil the aims of the revolution (the 
inkılâp
, the preceding 
ihtilâl’s
goal 
having been accomplished with the victorious outcome of the 1919-1922 war) the 
leading role should be given to a class of intellectuals which would oversee the 
application of the reforms
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. 
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Karataş, 278-79, quoting Aydemir 2003, 446 
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İleri, Nazım, 101 
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Türkeş 1998, 95 

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The role of Yakup Kadri in 
Kadro 
is discussed extensively by Karataş
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. Yakup 
Kadri contributed to the periodical with 40 articles on culture and literature, two on 
art and two on the economy. Despite the large number of articles scholars debate 
whether Yakup Kadri was simply the proprietor of the periodical or whether he had 
an influential role as well. Marxist scholars thought that he was only writing articles 
on literature not related to Marxist ideology and a similar view is shared by Mehmet 
Emin Uludağ. Birsen Talay argues that in some of his articles Yakup Kadri referred 
to the political systems of Italy and Russia as examples to be followed when 
appropriate, and so in parallel with his literary input to the periodical and to the 
movement he definitely had a political one as well. This seems to be perfectly true. 
In a rather surprising set of articles under the title ‘Ankara - Roma – Moskova”’
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Yakup Kadri praises the Russian revolution for creating a revolutionary climate all 
of its own and even more amazingly excuses the OGPU
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because it inhibits foreign 
contamination. Yakup Kadri was certainly associated with the ideological aims of 
the Kadro movement which is why he was packed off to Tirana as ambassador when 
Kadro 
was shut down.
Ertan shared this view by pointing out the political purpose of the articles in which 
Yakup Kadri strove to define and clarify the policies of the government. Ahmet 
Oktay, by contrast, thought that Yakup Kadri’s role was not as influential because he 
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Karataş, 280-81 referring to: Uludağ. 2005, 50, Talay 2002, 438-439, Ertan 1994, 39 and 127-129, Oktay 
2003, 339-343, Bostancı 1990, 9 
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Kadro
. 1932 , Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 37-40, No. 7 pp. 32-35, No. 9, pp. 34-38, No. 10, pp. 40-43, No. 11, pp. 38-40, 
No. 12, pp. 33-5, 1933, Vol. 2, No. 13, pp. 29-31, No. 14, pp. 39-44, No. 15, pp. 32-35, No. 16, pp. 39-41 
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The Unified State Political Directorate. The same organisation was previously known as the Cheka and 
subsequently as the KGB.

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