Comments on: Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City http://stevereads.com/weblog/2008/05/14/orhan-pamuk-istanbul-memories-and-the-city/ Books and policy from an endlessly curious perspective Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:14:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stephen Laniel’s Unspecified Bunker » Turkey and the Muslim-”secular” battle http://stevereads.com/weblog/2008/05/14/orhan-pamuk-istanbul-memories-and-the-city/comment-page-1/#comment-6056 Stephen Laniel’s Unspecified Bunker » Turkey and the Muslim-”secular” battle Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:49:35 +0000 http://stevereads.com/weblog/?p=4120#comment-6056 <p>[...] who weren’t “Turks,” and booted the rest out of the country. I recall reading in Pamuk’s Istanbul that more Jews left Turkey in the half-century after independence than left it in the half-century [...]</p> [...] who weren’t “Turks,” and booted the rest out of the country. I recall reading in Pamuk’s Istanbul that more Jews left Turkey in the half-century after independence than left it in the half-century [...]

]]> By: Alex Cachinero-Gorman http://stevereads.com/weblog/2008/05/14/orhan-pamuk-istanbul-memories-and-the-city/comment-page-1/#comment-5932 Alex Cachinero-Gorman Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:19:11 +0000 http://stevereads.com/weblog/?p=4120#comment-5932 <p>Hey I just wanted to drop in to note that we have strangely similar tastes! I discussed this book's shortcomings on my blog as well (linked above--as I wrote I found your post and quoted you), and I'm also reading Fromkin's A Peace to End All Peace. I found that they interpolated in a strange way, interestingly enough, but they've both been very rewarding. I'm almost at the end of Fromkin's book now.</p> <p>Good discovery! I'll be following this blog now.</p> Hey I just wanted to drop in to note that we have strangely similar tastes! I discussed this book’s shortcomings on my blog as well (linked above–as I wrote I found your post and quoted you), and I’m also reading Fromkin’s A Peace to End All Peace. I found that they interpolated in a strange way, interestingly enough, but they’ve both been very rewarding. I’m almost at the end of Fromkin’s book now.

Good discovery! I’ll be following this blog now.

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