ahmet ümit

"The photographs on the wall were striking, but this time they weren't photos of ancient buildings and great monuments. Instead, there were photos of the damage brought about by the construction of a five star hotel on the site of the Byzantine Palace, of the wrecked calligraphy adorning the walls of the Süleymanyie Mosque, of the now derelict remains of the Byzantine Bukaleon Palace, resembling a rubish tip rather than the dwelling palace of kings, of old wooden houses of Kadirga now on the verge of collapse, of the ancient Roman columns of Constantinople being used to display women's underwear by travelling salesmen, of the grim state of the Marmaray excavation site, crumbling and decayed as a result of construction work for the proposed underground tunnel, of the tragicomic state of an Ottoman fountain with the words Our Army is the Greatest scrawled across the intricately embellished marble and of the rusting antique weapons and crumbling portraits and artefacts in Topkapı Palace. Proof, in other words, of our mindless destruction of our own history."
Ahmet Ümit no romance policial (entertainment) A Memento for Istanbul.

porque os outros são um espelho onde nos vemos melhor a nós próprios.