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Turkish Novelist: “East and West shouldn’t clash”

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“Different civilizations do not necessarily make clashes or wars, or bombings, or killings. And the whole history of Istanbul is a testament to this,” says Orhan Pamuk – a Turkish novelist and a Nobel Prize winner.

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