"Najveća je uvreda tvrditi da je Mustafa Kemal, o čijoj hrabrosti se niko od nas ne bi usudio prosuđivati, učinio tako nešto," napisao je on u dopisu tužiocu, koji je na kraju podigao optužnicu protiv autorice i Necdeta Tatlıcana, urednika u listu Hurriyet.
"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.