In A Normal Democracy, You Protect The

How Can Love Be Worthy Of Its Name If One Selects Solely The Pretty Things And Leaves Out The Hardships? It Is Easy To Enjoy The Good And Dislike The Bad. Anybody Can Do That. The Real Challenge Is To Love The Good And The Bad Together, Not Because You Need To Take The Rough With The Smooth But Because You Need To Go Beyond Such Descriptions And Accept Love In Its Entirety.

I See What You Mean. It Must Be A Huge Relief, And An Easy Way Out, To Think The Devil Is Always Outside Of Us. (…) We Would Stop Looking For Sheitan Outside And Instead Focus On Ourselves. What We Need Is Sincere Self-examination. Not Being On The Watch For The Faults Of Others.” (p. 257).

Believers Are Each Other's Mirrors.

Words Are Heavy In Turkey, And Every Writer, Every Poet And Every Journalist Knows That, Because Of A Word, Because Of A Sentence, Because Of A Tweet Or Even A Retweet, You Can Be Sued, You Can Be Demonized By The Media And You Can Even Land In Prison.

Yeah, We Should All Line Up Along The Bosphorus Bridge And Puff As Hard As We Can To Shove This City In The Direction Of The West. If That Doesn't Work, We'll Try The Other Way, See If We Can Veer To The East. It's No Good To Be In Between. International Politics Does Not Appreciate Ambiguity.