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CHAPTER 4 – HALIDE EDIP AND YAKUP KADRI 
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Istanbul in 1910
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. As a columnist she had a wide correspondence with her readers 
many of whom she had met and discussed their problems in person
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followed in such periodicals as 
Şehbal 
(Feather), 
Büyük Mecmua 
(The Great 
Review), 
Musavver Muhit
(The Illustrated Environment) and 
Resimli Kitap 
(The 
Illustrated Book).
In 1911 she joined the 
Türk Ocakları 
(Turkish Hearths) where the idea of Turanism 
was discussed: the importance of Turkishness as a marker of identity and the union 
of all Turkic peoples including those beyond the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire. 
There she became acquainted with Ziya Gökâlp who was among the first poets to 
write poetry in the vernacular and to give it a literary status. It was under the 
influence of these ideas that she wrote one of her early novels with the title 
Yeni 
Turan
(New Turan) (1913) a utopia of an ideal, democratic and liberal Turkish state 
under the Committee of Union and Progress which would give women political 
rights and opportunities
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. The novel became very popular in Turkey. It also had an 
impact abroad and was translated into German. Soon she distanced herself from this 
extreme ideology but she continued to be very active in supporting the national 
cause. 
Apart from her intellectual endeavours she showed at a very early stage of her life 
that she was a woman of action who was determined to put her ideas into good 
practice. Soon after her divorce she taught at the Girls’ Academy for Teachers. She 
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Kudret II, 63 
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Adıvar 2005, 270 
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Adıvar 2005, ix 

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