from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap, read by John Lee. Books on Tape ... just as it did in his native Turkey. Orhan Pamuk, Author, Maureen Freely, Translator, trans. from the Turkish by Maureen ...

Kemal was the author of "Memed ... Kemal never promoted his Kurdish background. Few people actually knew he was a Kurd. "I'm a Turkish writer — of Kurdish origin," he once said.