“does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.”

— Orhan Pamuk, book Istanbul: Memories and the City

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Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literatu… 1952

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