{"id":24191,"date":"2012-08-17T11:20:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T08:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=24191"},"modified":"2012-08-17T11:34:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T08:34:57","slug":"author-orhan-pamuk-mistakes-turkish-secular-class-attitude-for-south-african-racism-24191","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/author-orhan-pamuk-mistakes-turkish-secular-class-attitude-for-south-african-racism-24191\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Orhan Pamuk mistakes Turkish secular class attitude for South African racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24192\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24192\" title=\"Orhan Pamuk remarks on secular and conservative Turks intriguing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/orhan-pamuk-turkey-secular-nationalturk-0455.jpg\" alt=\"Orhan Pamuk remarks on secular and conservative Turks intriguing\" width=\"610\" height=\"340\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orhan Pamuk remarks on secular and conservative Turks intriguing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Lucky Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk compares the attitude of the Turkish secular class toward Muslim conservatives to that of &#8216;the attitude of South Africa&#8217;s white people toward blacks.&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p>Literature \/ NationalTurk &#8211; Pamuk said during an interview with Michael Thumann from Germany&#8217;s Die Zeit that the Turkish secular class looks down on women who wear hijab and hate their own citizens.<\/p>\n<p>In response many Turks who felt referred to by Orhan Pamuk stated via twitter &#8221; Dear Orhan you are not right, we despise them, its not Turkish way its Islamist Arabic way &#8221; or &#8216; oh yes, that&#8217;s me &#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216; That attitude reminds me of the attitude of South Africa&#8217;s white population toward the blacks,&#8217; Pamuk accuses Turkish secularists with racism.<\/p>\n<h2>Orhan Pamuk remarks on secular and conservative Turks intriguing<\/h2>\n<p>Orhan Pamuk also brands what he refers to as &#8216; upper Turkish secular class &#8216; as egoists, claiming they were not bothered by military interventions or the Kurdish issue in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Orhan Pamuk admitted though that he was also a part of the Turkish bourgeoisie he described.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216; Their life is my life. We are of the same class and of the same street. We shop from the same stores,&#8217; Pamuk says. &#8216; I wrote lovingly of them and I mocked them as well.&#8217;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk compares the attitude of the Turkish secular class toward Muslim conservatives to that of &#8216;the attitude of South Africa&#8217;s white people toward blacks.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,74,63,118,895,101,172,174,194,173,1165,14],"tags":[31776,31781,31782,31783,31779,31778,31777,31780,31785,31786,31784],"class_list":["post-24191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-culture","category-daily","category-hot","category-life","category-politics","category-turkey-choice","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","category-turkey-life","category-world","tag-orhan-pamuk","tag-orhan-pamuk-die-zeit","tag-orhan-pamuk-islamist","tag-orhan-pamuk-racism","tag-orhan-pamuk-secular","tag-orhan-pamuk-turkey","tag-orhan-pamuk-turkish","tag-orhan-pamuk-turks","tag-turkish-bourgeoisie","tag-turkish-secular-class","tag-turkish-secularists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}