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CHAPTER 8 – YABAN, KADRO, ANKARA 
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of Independence. The second part is the development during the first years and the 
criticism of Yakup Kadri against the bureaucrats and the intellectuals and the third 
part is a hopeful environment. And despite the shutting down of 
Kadro 
Karataş 
suggests that Yakup Kadri’s hopeful aspiration for the future in the final part of the 
novel springs from the author’s trust in the new Republic
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Another critic, Mümtaz Sarıçiçek, reads 
Ankara
as a novel of an ideal situation and 
of an utopia and claims that Yakup Kadri’s optimistic view in the third part of the 
novel is followed by his pessimistic view in his later voluminous novel 
Panorama
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He follows Türkeş who writes that in the first two parts of 
Ankara 
Yakup Kadri 
shows the emergence of reactionary and profiteering segments of society in conflict 
with the new state of things. These harmful elements are the cause of the 
degeneration of the revolution but once Yakup Kadri makes the diagnosis of the 
problem which causes the progress of Democracy to slow down he sees “the train 
moving again” towards the values and the goals of the revolution in the future, that is 
in the third part of 
Ankara
. But in the introduction to the third edition of the novel 
Yakup Kadri admits that all that he had envisaged at the time had not been realised. 
In literature this confession was expressed in the subsequent novel 
Panorama
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It is worth noting that a more sensitive reader, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, had praise 
specifically for the opening of 
Ankara 
but passed over the rest in silence
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Karataş, 287-88 
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Sarıçiçek, 193-4
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Türkeş 2002a, 434 
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Tanpınar, 14-15. It is noteworthy that ‘Ankara’ is the shortest of the five chapters in the book filling only 14 
pages. 

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