How did Ali Safa Bey succeed in this new epoch of Turkey?

Book: "Memed My Hawk"
Author: Yashar Kemal
Text:
1920, Turkey - A time which peasants and serfs after the just fallen Ottoman Empire should have been acquiring their own land and own sense of independence. Most were, as well as benefiting from the new found government. Although, not all fractions of Turkey had been influenced by the change in supervision. As Yashar Kemal writes in his heroic novel Memed, My Hawk the isolated secluded lands of Turkey were still under landowners command. Ali Safa Bey represents that small percentage of Turks that were, after the new instated law, still in…