We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart

Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would lose a part of its own. It would also be a different Europe then. Accepting Turkey into the EU is an ambitious political endeavor of historical proportions. Europe would become a strong, multi-religious unit.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.

The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.