What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.

Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.

East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy - they are coming together. There needn't be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe.

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

Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?

I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the objects in his novels. I have a view of the entrance to the Bosporus, the old city, Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque.

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.