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CHAPTER 4 – HALIDE EDIP AND YAKUP KADRI 
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The birth of her two children in 1903 and 1905 gave her great joy. She had a Greek 
nurse for her first child from whom he must have learnt Greek “running about and 
talking Greek and Turkish to the conversation point”
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. In 1910 her husband decided 
to marry another woman. She took this as a deep insult and betrayal and very bravely 
asked him to give her a divorce
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. Eventually he agreed and she set up a new home 
with her children and her grandmother. This was not only a brave and for the time an 
unusual move but it also proved to be beneficial for her: she was freed from a 
husband who dominated her intellectually, it made her more available to her friends 
and she was able to discover new things and develop her own talents and interests 
move quickly. With her English education and culture she seemed to be quite unique 
among the intellectuals of that period who were mostly familiar with French and 
German. Her presence added a fresh note among them.
It was in the year 1908 during the exuberant days of the constitutional revolution that 
Halide Edip became a writer
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as she herself put it, in the Unionist paper 
Tanin 
(Voice) which was first published on 20th July under the joint editorship of Tevfik 
Fikret and Hüseyin Cahit. Salih Zeki was writing the scientific column while Halide 
Edip was writing the literary one. The paper had almost all the writers of the 
Edebiyatı Cedide 
(New Literature) Halit Ziya and Cenab Şehabbettin being among 
them, who “were considered the great writers of the period and their greatest figure 
as man and as poet was Tevfik Fikret”. “This school was fiercely attacked by the old 
writers for its imitation of the European culture, and had been equally criticised by 
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Adivar 2005, 215 
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Adivar 2005, 307 
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Adıvar 2005, 260 

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