today author elif suffolk cause london home. the turkish writer left her own country behind to escape the political situation there. sounds like may have come to england out of necessity but she's come to appreciate her new life here she's made friends people know her around here to get it all sort of. i came here over 10 years ago so i feel free here whether i speak write or give interviews i can i can openly criticize things for example breck that i'm free to do that. in this modest and riders it's very important to live in a democracy and you may be so much you can be a situation. and after a decade here in england shafiq has also taken the step of writing in the language of her new country. and. it's not like i'm leaving the. turkish language behind when i write an anus that's what the nationalists say for them everything is either black or white but you can dream in more than one language sometimes we start in german and the dream and turkish people can live and write in different languages but that doesn't mean that you're