Turkish authoress with Nationalist. views, who has become the greatest influence in Mustapzh Kemal's Goverumer: t, broke through the Allied cordon at Constantinople two years ago and by the light of a crescent moon ferried across the Bosphorous to the Asiatic shore. Allah ashkina bontera dan gud" ("This way, for the love of Allah, this way!?) The agonized ery from a writing frien] Prevented her from landing at th> wrong spot and rushing into the aims of Allied senirics. In this dramatic fashion Halid Edib began her journey to Angora, and there is a belief in the Nationalist camp that her timely arrival saved Mustapha Kema 1 from sinking into! oblivion. She inspired numerous Turks at Constantinople to follow her example and flock to Kemal's flag at Angora. Here her supreme influence over the Nationalist leader has not been questioned since last year, when she taunted him for being a weak muddler in hesitating to attack the Greeks.
Halid Edib was born near Consstantinople 32 years ago. Beauti-tui, clever, determined, with eyes that flash and a tongue that has often whipped the Young Turks into action, she has defied even the Sultan himself. She was the first Turkish woman to enter the American College at Constantinopl>.
Sultan was shocked, her relations were shamed, and popular clamour forced her ito retire. Nevertheless she continued her studies in secret and later travelled to London and Paris. At i6 she wrote htr first book on Turkisa lite and dealt with "such degrade ing things as veils and harems." During the war she was the Turkish Florence Nightingale and taught her woman friends to nurse, in flat defiance of the authorities and the Mohammedan religion.
At Angora sh> has established schools for men and women, and Ler influence has spread throughout that part of Asia Minor. She urged the women there to dispense with veils and taught them to real and. write and play a part in pub affairs. She has made no seers of the fact that her aim in life to rebuild the ruined Turkish Empire. Soon Halid Edib came to be known as the pioneer of the new woman movement in Islam. "Without emancipated women," she declared openly, Turkey will never become reunited." During the fighting last year against the Greeks she went into action with the Nationalist troops and handled
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