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

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions of sad stories in this giant sea of immigration, poverty, misery and contradictions. So much anger, frustration and fury.

Happiness is laughing together.

Football can teach us that although a team's individual players may be weak, it can still be successful if it uses common sense. Or that we should not attack anyone physically when we suffer a depressing defeat.

I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

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