When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of….

Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the h….

Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories..

The image that I remember most of all is of the Fenerbahçe players storming into the stadium before kickoff. They were called the canaries because of….

Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness..

There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the girls eats a sandwich, how she….

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing….

Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents.

And before long , the msuic , the views rushing past the window , my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one , and it se….

...every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries….

The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game..

My decision to view the world through novels, as it were, which is a typically European way of looking at things, became a heavy burden for me. But I….

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west..

Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions of….

Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'fam….

Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west ….

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen..

Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the….

In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and….

Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgr….

The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience..