Now Everyone Is Prouder And Poorer

My Childhood Proved To Me That There Could Be No Enjoyment Of Football Without Community. But It Becomes Difficult When This Community Is Having Problems With Its Identity. That's When We Experience All Possible Forms Of Nationalist Exaggeration.

After All, A Woman Who Doesn't Love Cats Is Never Going To Be Make A Man Happy.

The Challenge Is To Lend Conviction Even To The Voices Which Advocate Views I Find Personally Abhorrent, Whether They Are Political Islamists Or Officers Justifying A Coup.

Of Course In Turkey I'm Seen As Being On The 'western' Side, Criticised By The Nationalists, Criticised By The Communitarians As Not Belonging. Even, Sometimes, Criticised For Looking At My Country Through Western Eyes. And In The Western Media I'm Portrayed As Belonging To The East.

For The Traveler We See Leaning On His Neighbor Is An Honest And Well-meaning Man And Full Of Melancholy, Like Those Chekhov Characters So Laden With Virtues That They Never Know Success In Life.