She became a friend of Armenian priest , musician and later Armenian Genocide victim Komitas between 1913 and 1914 . Komitas had been invited to sing at her house several times . While Halide Edib was friendly towards him in person , in her writings she described Komitas and his music as " Anatolian " instead of Armenian . She claimed that his music had been stolen from Turks and that he " simply turned the words into Armenian " . In addition , she believed that his parents were " probably of Turkish descent " and that " he was an Armenian nationalist whether his origin was Turkish or Armenian , but in temperament and heart he was a real Anatolian Turk if unconsciously . " She married again in 1917 to Dr. Adnan ( later Adıvar ) and the next year took a job as a lecturer in literature at Istanbul University 's Faculty of Letters . It was during this time that she became increasingly active in Turkey 's nationalist movement , influenced by the ideas of Ziya Gökalp
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Halide Edib Adıvar