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CHAPTER 4 – HALIDE EDIP AND YAKUP KADRI 
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empathy for the human drama the mere mention of the fire in Izmir which she 
attributes to the Greeks, only in one paragraph towards the end of 
The Turkish 
Ordeal
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and the absence of any description of the human tragedy which was being 
unfolded on the water front are remarkable. In this respect she is in line with Yakup 
Kadri.
As in most of the Kurtuluş novels of the early period, apart from sporadic references 
to them, neither 
muhacir 
nor 
mubadil
appear in Halide Edip’s Kurtuluş novels 
although as the following account suggests she must have witnessed refugees on the 
move as the following account testifies. 
According to the account of the 
mubadil
Constantine Tsaousidis recorded in 1957 in 
Salonica where he had ended up after the exchange of populations, while he was still 
in Ankara, his home town, Halide Edip had taken him under her protection until he 
reached Istanbul where the rest of his family already was.
Tsaousidis had stayed in Ankara after his parents had fled to Istanbul because he was 
working in a big company belonging to a Hacı Ahmetzade Necib-Nafiz Biraderler. It 
was the family of this Hacı Ahmetzade which had entrusted him along with eleven 
more Greeks to “Mme Halide Edip, the wife of the vice president of the parliament 
Adnan Bey, and to Eşref Bey, a retired colonel” to deliver him safely to his family. 
When the twelve Greeks were later hindered by the gendarmes from getting on the 
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train, so Tsaousidis recalls, Halide Edip came on horseback along with Eşref Bey, 
reprimanded the gendarmes and assigned their protection throughout the journey to 
three Turkish soldiers
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.
In the same account Adnan Bey is purported to have lashed the officer prisoners of 
war who refused to obey his orders and instead of shouting “Long live Turkey!” and 
Mustafa Kemal shouted “Long live Greece!” 
Halide Εdip is undoubtedly an important literary and political figure of international 
fame. Alas, until recently her name was hardly known by at least the average Greek 
reader. The Greek translation of her novel 
The Clown and his Daughter
was 
published in Athens under the title 
Ο Δρόμος του Σινεκλί Μπακάλ
(The Street of 
Sinekli Bakal) in 1999 by the Livanis publishing house.