The digital world is developing with such force and such a pace that you simply can't ban or control it. People want to be globally connected.

Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.

In a normal democracy, you protect the individual from the excessive power of the state. In Turkey, power elites try to protect the state - as if this state were fragile and needed protection - when in fact, it's too powerful already.

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

Our politics is very masculine, very aggressive, and it's very polarizing. And the pace of this development has increased in recent years. Erdogan is, in my eyes, the most polarizing politician in recent Turkish political history.

If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.