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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.

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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

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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.

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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

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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.

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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.'

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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.

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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.

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I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Novelist

Born: June 7th, 1952

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