DER SPIEGEL: Mr. Pamuk, we would prefer to only talk to you about literature.
Pamuk: Me too! I've never considered myself an explicitly political writer, but at a time like this, in a country like mine, it would seem dishonest, even immoral, not to talk about politics.
DER SPIEGEL: More than almost any other author, you campaigned for understanding between cultures, for rapprochement between East and West ...
Pamuk: ... let me say one thing first: I'm a novelist. And it's a novelist's job to put your mind into all sorts of characters, which doesn't mean I agree with them.
DER SPIEGEL: Do you understand a figure like Erdoğan or Putin?
Pamuk: To a certain extent, yes. But again, that doesn't mean I share their attitudes.
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