HALİDE EDİP’İN VURUN KAHPEYE ROMANINDA FARKLI BOYUTLARIYLA MİLLÎ MÜCADELE’YE YAKLAŞIM

The period of National Struggle has been discussed and dealt both in a certain number of novels written in the war years and in the great number of masterpieces produced in the following years with its various aspects. Halide Edip, who herself also involved in this struggle by working directly at frontlines, in her novel named "Vurun Kahpeye", tries to make the reader aware of the fact that the independence war won against invasion of enemy alone could not be sufficient for an absolute and permanent victory. According to her point of view, the main/permanent victory will be won, besides elimination of the bigotry, by designing the degenerated management mentality and the nonfunctional education system in conformity with Western models. Thus, the Author reveals a point of view which included into the process also the more comprehensive and long-term efforts spread over the National Struggle. In the Novel, the struggle carried out by Tosun Bey, Captain of "Kuva-yı Milliye" (National Military Forces), at Military Plan and the struggle given by his fiancée Aliye at the front of education as a teacher have been displayed and described as the events based on the same intellectual backgound, which are oriented towards the same purpose, complementary and made each other meaningful. In this paper, Halide Edip's approach to the National Struggle which is different in her novel called “Vurun Kahpeye” will be tried to be evaluated and studied with the main points.