"It is the greatest insult to claim that Mustafa Kemal, whose courage none of us would dare judge, did something like that," he wrote in a letter to the prosecutor, who eventually pressed charges against the author and Necdet Tatlıcan, an editor at Hurriyet.
"Najveća je uvreda tvrditi kako se Mustafa Kemal, o čijoj hrabrosti se nitko od nas ne usuđuje suditi, učinio takvo nešto", napisao je u pismu tužitelju, koji je na koncu podignuo optužnicu protiv autorice i Necdeta Tatlıcana, urednika Hurriyeta.