What makes you think so?

Tomorrow inshallah (unless someone else continues before that).

...does Orhan Pamuk use Alif - Ba - Džim for A - B - C in Benim adım kırmızı even though the Arabic alphabet begins Alif - Ba - Ta...?

My Try for the beginning:

Let us walk in Istanbul with you

If I knew that you love the red colour

my dreams would be crimson.

Istanbul is still behind the sun.

There are a few black spots in its horizon,

a few blood clots on its lips.

Istanbul is still so lovable,

still like a flower bud.

Let us walk in Istanbul with you.

It is a fearless dream.

A few swans, a few downcast feathers

waits for us in Beykoz, Üsküdar.

It is like a beatless mystery.

A crazy wind, drunk and wild

looks for our hands that never met each other.

Right there, on the hill of Çamlıca,

let us pull a few clouds from the sky,

let us steer them through our veins

and all of a sudden leave them above the waters.

Talk a little, laugh a little,

let´s make sandy marbles you and me,

sprinkling marbles, a nightingale´s nest,

a pansy, a hyacinth.

(Lack of punctuation is bothering in some verses, it may even change the meaning. If you want it in beautiful English I cannot help you, though.)

Thank you all the three of you. (Mehmet knows Finnish, he probably knows why I asked...)

O kitabı okudum.

Did I necessarily finish the book?

If someone told me I am not a Finn it would not make the slightest difference to me.

I mean we are so different.

I guess the word for ´chance´ is ihtimal here.

                  yüzde otuz ihtimalle

                  yüz ihtimalden otuz ihtimalde

                  yüzde otuz ihtimal var.

But wait for natives to correct or confirm it.

İyi şanslar diliyorum.

Dualarım seninle.

A reverse dictionary could be useful in this. But I don´t think there is one  -  or is there?