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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.

As a South African, the idea of turkey was new to me. And confusing. It's about the least flavorful bird on the planet.

A 'Cosmo' cover has been my dream my entire life. I cried when I found out.

Thank God for YouTube. Every Thanksgiving, I'm bombarded with 'Turkey Lurkey Time.'

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.

There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

The West has the wrong perception about Turkey itself.

'Cosmopolitan' used to publish five covers across the U.S. so that if one was unpopular, it wouldn't tank their entire sales.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.