Orhan Pamuk

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

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Orhan Pamuk

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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. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Orhan Pamuk

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