Orhan Pamuk: Turkey is becoming authoritarian the more it moves away from Europe

Orhan Pamuk came to Berlin to promote his novel “The Red-Haired Woman” that has been translated into German. Pamuk said at the promotional event for the novel, “Turkey is becoming authoritarian the more it moves away from Europe.”

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Nobel prize winning author Orhan Pamuk said at an event held in Berlin to promote his latest novel “The Red-Haired Woman” that has been translated into German, “Turkey is becoming authoritarian the more it moves away from Europe.” According to a report by Deutsche Welle Turkish’s Jülide Danışman, Pamuk commented, “Turkey’s political situation has impelled me to write this story I have been carrying in my head for thirty years.”
 
Pamuk, pointing out that Turkey was moving away from Europe, opined, “I am furious, angry, and critical about this. I am an author who knows that Turkey’s peace, happy future, prosperity, well-being and cultural wealth will find their best expression in drawing closer to Europe. My whole life has been spent believing this. But, Turkey is becoming authoritarian the more it moves away from Europe. What I have done in this book is to approach these matters in depth and in a literary manner.”
 
“The Red-Haired Woman”, in describing the effect on Cem’s life when the high school student spends one month working alongside Mahmut Master, who digs wells using traditional methods, to get some pocket money, deals with master-apprentice and father-son relations. Orhan Pamuk, who said the novel has a realistic aspect, noted that there was a side to it that incorporated old stories such as Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” in which the son kills the father and Ferdowsi’s “Rostam and Sohrab” in which the authoritarian father kills the son.


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