ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces Halide Edib's life and work and expounds upon how and why Edib's is the politics of literature par excellence. It looks at Edib's literary politics from a rather more critical perspective. Edib was also systematically "accused" of having Jewish heritage in Turkey as she became more and more prominent in the Turkish revolutionary movement as the sole imposing female figure on the battlefield. From 1908 Edib published articles on Muslim women and education in other journals in Istanbul, mainly Tanin. Eventually, her articles that emphasized the significance of literary and humanistic training of the masses got her a job as an educational reformer. It is also difficult to decide whether Edib is veiling or unveiling something about Gandhi, Islam, or India in these lines, or whether Mustafa Kemal veils or unveils anything about Edib or Judaism when he addresses Edib's alleged Jewishness.
