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CHAPTER 4 – HALIDE EDIP AND YAKUP KADRI 
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Become a Diplomat,1954) which deals with his enforced career as a diplomat from 
1934; 
Anamın Kitabı
(My Mother’s Book, 1957) about his early life; 
Vatan Yolunda
(On the Way to Motherland, 1958) which has a very independent view of politics 
and war in the years after 1918; 
Politikada 45 Yıl
(45 Years in Politics’, 1968) which 
covers the whole republican period; and finally 
Gençlik ve Edebiyat Hatıraları
(Youth and Literature Memoirs, 1969).
His family re-established itself in Manisa from Cairo when Yakup Kadri was 6 in 
1895 and he attended the Fevziye primary school. In 1903 he went to secondary 
school in Izmir where he first met Şahabettin Süleyman, author, poet and later 
member of the 
Fecr-i Âti
(The Age of the New Dawn) literary movement. In 1905 
the family left for Alexandria and Yakup Kadri finished his secondary education in 
1906 at a French missionary school there. A few months before the Young Turk 
revolution in 1908, the family moved again, this time to Istanbul; Yakup Kadri who 
was in Istanbul for the first time in his life at the age of 18, entered the Faculty of 
Law (Mekteb-i Hukuk) of Istanbul University. His literary interests had already been 
aroused in Izmir through his friendship with Şahabettin Süleyman and his brother 
Memduh Süleyman, he had already been writing poetry (unpublished) and had 
become familiar with the 
Edebiyat-ı Cedide
movement. As a result of his formal 
education and his upbringing he had wide intellectual horizons. He spoke Arabic and 
had a direct knowledge of French literature. Beginning with children’s books in his 
father’s library in Manisa, he became familiar with literature from a very early age. 
Most important and influential though were the novels read to him and to his sister 
by his mother. His favourite novel in childhood was the 
Count of Montecristo. 

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