As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects.

Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.

I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

I see myself as a traveller.

I see myself as an entertainer.