Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.

It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.

If the Americans would only take all the money they have spent on this war (Iraq), and spend it like Soros has done on civil societies in these countries, then in 10 years they would have wonderful results.

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.