...at least I am happy!
...and I suppose that Orhan Pamuk is too...since he won the most prestigious literature prize there is...and further more, over 1 million euro.

...ehm...I heard he is divorced...

– Orhan Pamuk, zillionaire of my life...I wait for you in Stockholm in december!!!

...hands off, gals!!! ...he is taken!

I've got the book 'Istanbul - memoirs of a city', but I'm too busy with school to find some time to read it! I did read a few chapters though, and it seems an interesting book, I especially like all the pictures!

Who did get Nobel Prize ?? Orhan Pamuk or allegations as to the ‘Armenian Genocide’ ?? Who did it win..?? I think you forgot that Orhan Pamuk said that: "Turkey killed one million Armenians and 30.000 Kurds.." Thats why,It is so interesting that France made law about on "lies of Armenian Genodice" at same day..

The falsification of ‘Armenian Genocide’ was fabricated under the conditions of the First World War, by Britain, France and the Tsarist Russia as a tool of psychological war, with the purpose of partitioning Turkey. The instigator of these tragedies are the imperialist powers who wanted to partition Turkey and share it among them. Now, the same powers are on the job..Including Orhan Pamuk..

As being the first Turk who won the Nobel Prize, Congragulations to him!

Lets skip the political issues or games aside, we should enjoy it i guess or he should enjoy lol


p.s. Aslan, you have a hard job to have him my prayers are with you

...thank you, Sui Generis! ...you go ahead praying...and I go ahead hunting!

...I have to take advantage from the fact that Kaplan is taken! ...less competition!!!

...Orhan...I am all yours! ...just handle me your bank account!

I don't know this Orhan guy sounds like a keeper, you may have some competition.

...beware...I am a lioness!

I thought you were joking but it is on the news:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6044192.stm

He might have won the nobel price but he has lost my respect. You can add to this the respect of almost our whole nation as well. I'm hugely dissapointed with this person and the lies he is telling about our history just to gain more popularity on international press.

Our government has opened Ottoman archieves to researchers a few years ago and anybody seriously interested on the Armenian issue will know that Ottomans never did the things that have been claimed. On the contrary many Turks have been victoms of mass murder. Interestingly none of European researchers have been interested on archieves which include many historical documents and are a real evidence on what happened during the WW1.

I believe there is no other intellectual in the World who is disliked in his homeland as much as Orhan Pamuk. He is a shame to our country.

When I had read one of his books for the first time I was 19. It was back in early 90's. I was a junior at the university and I finished the book the same night I started. Without a sleep, the following morning I went to a bookshop to buy another one of his books. I was too excited. There were people who didn't like his style. They said he was a postmodernist but I loved reading him.

Now there is nothing in the World that can bring back a small piece of this enjoyment I once had when reading his books.

Very rare people are lucky enough to leave something behind memorable and special. There are great minds of history that we will always admire and remember decades after their death. Orhan Pamuk had a chance to be one of those rare people. Unfortunately he wasn't man enough to deal with this reality. Now he is a piece of nothingness with a nobel price. I don't thing it was worth the price for what he has lost.