Renowned Turkish Nobelist Abandons Turkey (Photo)
(9 years ago)Turkish writer and Nobelist Orhan Pamuk stated that because of political events that have long been occurring in Turkey, it has become impossible to live there anymore. So he declared in an interview for the Italian newspaper “La Stampa”, broadcast the alsat. “E destroyed my Istanbul”, the Nobelist laments. Pamuk also speaks of [...]
“E destroyed my Istanbul”, the novelist laments. Pamuk also speaks of negative changes in the city of Istanbul in 15 years. The “Now is wrong everything you say in a political way even showing homesickness is a mistake, censorship exists everywhere. “Politically I can no longer live in Istanbul”, Pamuk points out.
According to him, Istanbul in these 15 years has become richer, but has lost its freedom. Pamuk has recently left Istanbul and lives and works in New York, legalises at Columbia University.
He adds that he has become a political writer, noting that he has begun to envy Western authors. Turkey's “The future is the West”, Pamuk is classy for this, which says he has grown with such conviction.
I won Western, liberal, secular education. But today in Istanbul there is no freedom of expression, and that worries me, grieves me and bothers me”, concludes Pamuk in the interview given for Italian prestige.
