Lucky Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk compares the attitude of the Turkish secular class toward Muslim conservatives to that of ‘the attitude of South Africa’s white people toward blacks.’

Literature / NationalTurk – Pamuk said during an interview with Michael Thumann from Germany’s Die Zeit that the Turkish secular class looks down on women who wear hijab and hate their own citizens.

In response many Turks who felt referred to by Orhan Pamuk stated via twitter ” Dear Orhan you are not right, we despise them, its not Turkish way its Islamist Arabic way ” or ‘ oh yes, that’s me ‘.

‘ That attitude reminds me of the attitude of South Africa’s white population toward the blacks,’ Pamuk accuses Turkish secularists with racism.

Orhan Pamuk remarks on secular and conservative Turks intriguing

Orhan Pamuk also brands what he refers to as ‘ upper Turkish secular class ‘ as egoists, claiming they were not bothered by military interventions or the Kurdish issue in Turkey.

Orhan Pamuk admitted though that he was also a part of the Turkish bourgeoisie he described.

‘ Their life is my life. We are of the same class and of the same street. We shop from the same stores,’ Pamuk says. ‘ I wrote lovingly of them and I mocked them as well.’

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