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.

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.

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

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

Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others.

No one drives me into exile, not even the nationalists.