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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.

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.

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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,...

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...

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...

'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...

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.

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

When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.

I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon...

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