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CHAPTER 4 – HALIDE EDIP AND YAKUP KADRI 
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‘Is that a threat, Pasham? I asked quietly but firmly.
But the veil which had parted to reveal his innermost mind closed again. 
He was eagerly apologetic. 
‘I am sorry,” he said; ‘I would not threaten you.’ 
I knew that he would threaten any one and every one, including the most 
powerless; but I also knew that at that moment he did not mean to 
threaten me. For he was saying just what he felt regardless of those who 
were present: it was as though he were thinking aloud-my presence there 
was irrelevant.
This was the only incident in my intercourse with Mustafa Kemal Pasha 
which at all approached a scene. For, although I know that he did not 
make any exception of me when I was absent, and criticised and abused 
me as he did everybody else, when in my presence his attitude to me was 
that of a perfect gentleman. And this was no exception to his usual 
attitude to women. He was modern in one respect-that he did not have 
different standards for men and women. And those women whom he 
thought to be of the respectable sort he treated as he would have treated 
men-though this trait must not be viewed apart from the rest of his 
mental make-up. He always considered every Turkish subject to have 
been brought into the world especially to serve his purpose: each was a 
member of the collective mass of Turkish humanity which he meant to 
possess and command. And should a woman among them oppose him she 
would be given no chivalrous consideration, but would be ruthlessly 
dealt with by whatever horrid means he could devise. 
That night I did a lot of thinking. Hating sham at all times, and being 
tired of the intrigues and subterfuges of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, I admired 
him for having told me his intentions in one single sentence. But I could 
not reconcile myself to the other Mustafa Kemal Pasha - the one who 
refused to take any responsibility in the struggle of the Turks for their 
very existence. The phrases ‘All power belongs to the people’ and 
‘Power is indivisible’ were in his mouth mere catchwords intended to 
transfer the responsibility to lesser people in case he should fail. Others 
had to suffer and die to achieve deliverance. Should they fail, they would 
have to pay the penalty. Should they succeed, Mustafa Kemal Pasha 
would step forward and say:
‘You are only the herd! You were in chains and threatened with 
extermination, and lo! I have delivered you! Bow down and worship me 
to the exclusion of your God, your Past, your Personality, and of every 
other right!’
Although I hated this picture of him, I was practical enough to see that 
he was the most important of our leading men of the time: his 
extraordinary vitality and his unlimited ambition obviously predestined 
him to some great future. … I knew very well that he would never forget 

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