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“I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.”

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Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture is mostly…

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I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

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Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

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Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A…

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The lack of trust in supranational entities and cosmopolitan elite creates a fertile ground for tribalist belongings and reactionary politics.

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I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and rewrite. So…

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