- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
- Nov 07, 2020
My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
- Asserting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is Red,' or even 'The Museum of Innocence,' because the secular leaders didn't want this bourgeois Orhan trying to understand these head-scarf girls.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020