Let’s also remember that 50 percent of Istanbul voted against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the last elections. Your house may undergo a renovation but it is still your home and does not change. “I live in the West often but Istanbul is always my home. Pamuk spends much of his time in New York and gives classes at the University of Colombia, and he said the West is “no longer more a mystery for him.” But now nostalgia has also become wrong in political terms,” Pamuk said. Maybe it is because they are the only things remaining from those times. That is what it means to be human: Destroying everything and then being nostalgic about it. “I have been collecting old Istanbul photos for years. The old houses I love have been destroyed,” he added, in the article headlined: “They have killed the Istanbul I loved.” The architecture and the economy have changed. “Today it is a richer but less free city. “I don’t love this current state of Istanbul, where my memories have been destroyed,” said Pamuk.
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