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Just how much can a single color possibly foster the richness of diversity and the blessings that it brings? How can this single color and sameness possibly lead to anything but a state of “nobody-ness,” let alone provide identity? When defining its identity, that is why Turkey simply cannot do without its colors.

© copyright 2002, Attila Durak
 
Roman, Kırklareli
May 2002

Turkey should be a work of an ebru, with all the colors blending together, but at the same time, each being able to radiate its own light. A work of an ebru that calls the colors into being without melting them in a single crucible, or confining each piece to the place it sees fit; an ebru in which each color can roam freely, and which is formed of the traces that the colors leave as they carve out their paths. For Turkey’s colors are those of the many-hued ebru.

Excerpt from Ebru: Reflections of Cultural Diversity in Turkey (Metis Publishing, 2007).