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Yakup Kadri Karaomanoğlu 
Yakup Kadri was born in Cairo in 1889. He was the progeny of a leading family 
(
ayan
) of Turkmen origins who settled in western Anatolia in 17
th
century and 
became major land owners with political influence and great authority over a vast 
territory around Manisa
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. Their distinction even reached the notice of Byron who 
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Kitromilides 1982, 380-382 
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Archival sources on and details about the family in the articles by Nagata and Veinstein. Also 
Anagnostopoulou, 129 and 198 and Yücel, 10-14 

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CHAPTER 4 – HALIDE EDIP AND YAKUP KADRI 
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uses the name dramatically in stanza VII of Canto 1 of the 
Bride of Abydos
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. It is the 
bride’s father who is speaking and trying to persuade his daughter of the merits of 
the expedient marriage he has in mind
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: 
We Moslem reck not much of blood 
But yet the line of Carasman 
Unchanged, unchangeable has stood 
First of the bold timariot bands 
That won and well can keep their lands. 
The value of their protection or the fear of their tyranny is variously mentioned in 
Christian narratives that lived in the area
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.
When the time came to take surnames, Yakup Kadri could resort to the family name, 
Karaosmanoğlu, and did not need to make a joke of the kind made by Halide Edip’s 
husband, Dr Adnan, who chose Adıvar (he has a name)! 
Like Halide Edip, Yakup Kadri lived a long life (he died in Istanbul as late as 1974) 
and was closely involved in public affairs. There are two biographies; one by Niyazi 
Akı first published in 1960 of which the subject himself had a low opinion and the 
authorised one by Hasan-Âli Yücel entitled 
Edebiyat Tarihimizden
(From our 
Literary History), first published in 1957
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.
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Kitromilides n/d 307: a Greek translation of this book was published in 1836 is included in the bibliographical 
list of the books printed in Izmir (Smyrna) 
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Byron, 260-1 
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Sakkaris, 45, Kontoglou 21.
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Jacobson, 96: “Niyazı Akı is young, very young. The man you should read is Hasan Ali. … Hasan Ali’s book 
reflects me better than any other.” 

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