"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 da je Mustafa Kemal, o čijoj hrabrosti se niko od nas ne usuđuje da sudi, uradio tako nešto", napisao je on u pismu tužiocu, koji je na kraju podigao optužnicu protiv autorke i Nedždeta Tatlidžana, urednika Hurijeta.