“it was necessary to abolish the fez”: Quoted in Sibel Bozdo?an, Modernism and Nation Building (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001), 56.
“Turkish schoolbooks taught new generations”: Quoted in Charles King, Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul (New York: Norton, 2015), 189.
“a racialized conception of the history of all civilization”: Ay?e Gül Alt?nay, The Myth of the Military Nation (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 22.
“a bare hillock”: Christopher de Bellaigue, Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 153.
“Turkish architects today abandoned domes”: Behcet and Bedrettin, “Turk Inkilap Mimar?s?,” 1933; quoted in Bozdo?an, Modernism and Nation Building, 56.
“The temples that the Egyptians”: Quoted in Bozdo?an, ibid., 106.
“appealed particularly to ‘planners’”: Ibid., 6.
“the universal trajectory of progress”: Ibid., 106.
“leaving them in their underpants”: Quoted in Hale Yilmaz, Becoming Turkish: Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2013), 133.
“What was the woman of fifteen years ago”: Quoted in Bozdo?an, Modernism and Nation Building, 82.
“What does the word ‘modern’ mean?”: Quoted in Kinross, Ataturk, 432.
“The advance in little more than a decade from the veil”: New York Times, June 20, 1937; quoted in Alt?nay, The Myth of the Military Nation, 45.
“No one who’s even slightly Westernized”: Orhan Pamuk, Snow (New York: Knopf, 2005), 203.
“There is something called ‘neighborhood pressure’”: Quoted in Cüneyt ülsever, “An Analysis of the AKP,” Hurriyet Daily News, May 26, 2007.
“They’re all orphans of a civilization collapse”: Ahmet Hamdi Tanp?nar, A Mind at Peace (Brooklyn: Archipelago Books, 2008), 219.
“Atatürk has had to force through everything”: Quoted in Karlheinz Barck and Anthony Reynolds, “Walter Benjamin and Erich Auerbach: Fragments of a Correspondence,” Diacritics 22, no. 3/4 (2008): 81–83.
“Ours was the guilt, loss”: Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City (New York: Vintage, 2006), 211.
“Western leaders have been scouring”: Andrew Purvis, “The 2004 Time 100,” Time, April 26, 2004.
“did not think the novel was about Africa at all”: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (New York: Knopf, 2013), 190.
2. FINDING ENGIN: TURKEY
In those early years, Turkish women often asked me what I thought of Turkish men: Suzy Hansen, “There Goes the Neighborhood,” The National, 2008.
“When you see a beautiful woman in the street”: Quoted in Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City, 140.
“scowls”: Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994), 303.
“What I was really feeling, during these journeys”: Joseph O’Neill, Blood-Dark Track (London: Granta, 2001), 305.
“humiliation”: Orhan Pamuk, Other Colors (New York: Vintage, 2007), 328.
“Yes, despicable as it may sound”: Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2007), 72.
“its values and steadfast adherence”: David F. Schmitz, Thank God They’re on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), 306.
“But I have always been struck”: James Baldwin, No Name in the Street (New York: Dial Press, 1972), 53.
“All of the Western nations have been caught in a lie”: Ibid., 85.
“White Americans are probably the sickest”: Ibid., 55.
“White children, in the main”: Ibid., 128.
“Unjust societies tend to cloud the minds of those who live within them”: Jonathan Lear, “Waiting with Coetzee,” The Raritan, Spring 2015, 1–26.
Around that time a bomb went off in the Istanbul neighborhood of Güng?ren: Suzy Hansen, “Istanbul Asks: Why Gungoren?” New York Observer, July 31, 2008.
“produced carnage”: Drew Faust, This Republic of Suffering (New York: Vintage, 2008), xii.
After fifteen months in Istanbul, I finally met Engin Cezzar: Suzy Hansen, “The Importance of Elsewhere,” The National, July 3, 2009.
“people who, whatever they are pretending”: Ibid.
“Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty”: James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (New York: Dial Press, 1963), 45.
“In order to deal with the untapped”: Ibid., 39.
“I feel free in Turkey”: Quoted in Magdalena J. Zaborowska, James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009), 87.
“The American power follows one everywhere”: Ibid., 18.
“imperial presence”: Ibid., 17.
“power politics and foreign aid … in that sort of theatre”: Ibid., 99.
“When the ship anchored”: Quoted in Aylin Yal??n, “American Impact on Turkish Social Life (1945–1965),” Journal of American Studies of Turkey 15 (2002): 41–54.
“Turkish children to love the white Americans and hate the Indians”: Ibid.
3. A COLD WAR MIND: AMERICA AND THE WORLD
“American ignorance is a new phenomenon”: Quoted in Zaborowska, James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade, 25.
“empire”: Tony Judt, “Dreams of Empire,” New York Review of Books, November 4, 2004.
“a rattling of chains, always was”: D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature (New York: Penguin Classics, 1990), 17.
“creating of more and higher wants”: Quoted in Lears, Rebirth of a Nation, 32.
“sincere”: William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (New York: W. W. Norton, 1972), 2.
“rational man who stood at the center of an enlightened world”: Greg Grandin, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014), 8.
“world power was thrust upon”: Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, 20.
“like children, like schoolboys on holiday”: Curzio Malaparte, The Skin (New York: New York Review of Books Classics, 2013), 194.
“would blush crimson”: Ibid., 20.
“men can recover”: Ibid., 61.
“as though with enough time”: James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room (New York: Vintage, 2013; orig. pub. 1956), 34.
“founded on the conviction”: Malaparte, The Skin, 63.
“they believe that a conquered nation”: Ibid., 15.
“The source of the plague”: Ibid., 34.
“carpet of human skin”: Ibid., 293.
“It is a shameful thing to win a war”: Ibid., 334.
“a hole in human history”: Quoted in Ran Zwigenberg, Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 17.
“I don’t want to be told”: Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984), 452.
“The eyebrows of some were burned off”: John Hersey, Hiroshima (New York: Vintage, 1989), 29.
“even touch on the public debate”: Gore Vidal, “Tenacity,” The New Yorker, February 1, 1963.
“the moment when total war”: Garry Wills, “Carter and the End of Liberalism,” New York Review of Books, May 12, 1977.