there's another writer in turkey that i've interviewed several times, 0rhan pamuk, winner of the nobel, no less. now he is no friend of the akp government. his books have a lot of sort of allusions to tyranny and dictatorship, but he's chosen to stay. he lives in turkey with bodyguards. and he joked to the guardian newspaper last year, he said, i used to have three bodyguards, now i have one. surely that means turkey must be improving. maybe you, given that you care so much about this country, could consider going back? many people like me, and when i say like me, i don't only mean politically critical people, and so on. i, i also talk about the very well—educated people who had to leave turkey after 2016. there was a massive brain drain from turkey. they do not have the privilege of having a bodyguard. and for all of us right now, the focus is this election and what we can do for this election. this is the last time we can pull ourselves together and make turkey a democratic country again. it was never a great democracy, but it was a functioning, crazy democracy before this regime cha