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From the hundreds of articles which were 
filling a three year period on a daily basis I picked and published in a book form only 
fifty or sixty of them. But it should not be thought that I like these ones more than the 
others. ‘
Ergenekon’ is not a book of ‘selected writings’(seçme yazıları). 
It 
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APPENDIX 3 
ERGENEKON PREFACE AND EPILOGUE 
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contains some scrap documents which the history about the War of Independence 
will not capture or will not deem necessary to do so. Only such documents can 
remember the moral and intellectual crisis the nation was going through from 1920 to 
1923. Here the only value of the parts which constitute ‘Ergenekon’ consists of the 
showing of these moral and mental crisis more clearly than the others. 
In this respect each of these writings can be compared with a small mirror which 
reflects that period’s spiritual landscapes like a line of fire.
Inside these small mirrors I see my own face too. 
Have I changed a lot? Just not at all… But, everybody and everything around me 
have changed so much that in this new atmosphere, in this new environment I now 
find myself aged to a ridiculous degree. My place, together with these two volumes, 
is in one of the museums ‘ dark corner. Museums are not the tombs of only glorious, 
beautiful or valuable things. Loose horse shoe nails can find a place there too. 
I feel so lonely and strange in this new atmosphere and in this new environment that 
I regret not to have died among the exuberant and joyful voices of the days of the 
past victories. In fact the idea of a sweet death was my companion like a dear friend 
since a long before. The day I heard that the Young Hero of the Anafarta opened a 
holy war in the pastures of Anadolu having torn with the tip of his sword the Treaty 
of Serves I had said to myself: ‘What a beautiful opportunity to die!’ But fate did not 

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