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We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

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The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey.

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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.

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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.

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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

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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.

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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Novelist

Born: June 7th, 1952

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