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CHAPTER 8 – YABAN, KADRO, ANKARA 
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This part of the novel represents an ideal future. In the ideal Ankara of this part 
intellectuals like Neşet Sabit and Selma Hanım mingle in harmony with the working 
classes and the peasants, and for the first time seem to speak the same language. 
At the opening of the Büyük Devlet Tiyatrosu 
Kaltabanlar 
(The Scoundrels) by 
Neşet Sabit is staged and the people who watch it are fully engaged with it. The Gazi 
himself summons Neşet Sabit to congratulate him
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. After the theatre the 
entertainment continues with dances from the Black Sea region
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. The workers of 
Turkey are not like the proletarians of the other European countries. The Turkish 
working classes are in the service of their country for the benefit of all
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. The 
villagers can now afford to buy good quality clothes produced by state factories
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, 
the arid Anatolian land is cultivated, roads are built and connect Ankara to smaller 
villages by bus which run three or four times a day. The Anatolian countryside 
resembles the countryside in Provence
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. Fresh local products reach the Ankara 
market every day. The villagers can afford to buy their sugar and clothes. 
Selma Hanım, Neşet Sabit and their like found great pleasure in being among the 
ordinary people and spent their free time in places of communal entertainment. 
When the weather was good they would take pleasant strolls in the country or watch 
sports competitions at the Stadium. When the weather was bad they would go to well 
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Karaosmanoğlu 1934,173
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Karaosmanoğlu 1934, 178-179 
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Karaosmanoğlu 1934, 159 
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Karaosmanoğlu 1934, 162 
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Karaosmanoğlu, 1934, 199 

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