in 2006, the bustard of istanbul was your novel which landed you in court.ed you were going to be convicted of crimes under article 301, which essentially was accusing you of insulting turkishness because of the way you wrote about the mass killing of armenians, what many call the armenian genocide? yes, in my novel the bustard of istanbul, i wrote the story of an armenian american family and a turkish family and it is a book that uses the word genocide for what happened in 1915 and for that i was accused of insulting turkishness under article 301, even though nobody knows what that exactly means. what is insulting turkishness? it is open to misinterpretation. and it was a very unsettling, unnerving time for me. i had to live with a bodyguard for a year and a half and the trial itself was quite negative. but that's a memory you can't get rid of. saying so frankly that you were unsettled, you were unnerved, lived for a year and a half with a bodyguard, when you write your books today, and i know you have just embarked on another novel, surely you are carrying