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APPENDIX 2 
YAKUP KADRI’S ATEŞTEN GÖMLEK – ENGLISH TRANSLATION 
FRAGMENT A 
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village, then here… They say that her first separation was because of a murder. The 
second was more mysterious, one day her husband left the village without telling 
anybody and without leaving any trace behind and never to return. It is for this 
reason that in that village they consider her to be a witch and in order to protect the 
young men who were left behind from evil they no longer let her inside their borders. 
Here Cennet belonged to a man with two wives. This man was in the army when I 
came here. And Cennet was living in great trouble between the two jealous fellow 
wives. Essentially, it was not only these two fellow wives but all the villagers were 
against this poor woman. It is because of her that the village’s tranquillity was 
immediately a case of perpetual impossibility. Cennet said that, Cennet did this, there 
is such an uproar sometimes in the threshing place, sometimes at the fountain head 
that the echoes of the voices reach us, and I am obliged to send one of my privates 
almost as if on a police duty. One day the echo of the far away cries reached us at the 
hill where we were, followed by a sudden big commotion. As I was preparing to send 
my sergeant again and my privates to the event in the neighbourhood I suddenly saw 
Cennet falling in front of my tent’s door with the flutterings and the hoarse voice of 
an injured bird. 
Her hands and her face were covered with blood, her clothes were torn in pieces, she 
was crying, she was moaning, she was trembling.
As soon as she saw me she threw herself at me: My Pasha, my dear Pasha, my life is 
entrusted to your hands, save me, she was saying. All of them, all of them want to 
kill me. There is nothing I have not suffered from their hands since my husband left 

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