Orhan Pamuk: dream of a rosy-pink Europe faded Turkish novelist, Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk writes that in the schoolbooks he read as a child in the 1950s and 1960s, Europe was a rosy land of legend. “While forging his new republic from the ruins of the Ottoman empire, which had been crushed and fragmented in the first world war, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk did fight against the Greek army, but with the support of...
ankakh December 25, 2010 21:23