Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Turkish Daily News - Don Quixote fights Ankara windmills in children's book

"Don Quixote fights Ankara windmills in children's book
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
ANKARA - Turkish Daily News

What if Cervantes' fictional character Don Quixote were to come to Ankara as an ambassador? This hero would have trouble with modern-day traffic, would fall into a trench dug for a natural gas pipe, would try to stay at a "han" he thinks is an inn but is really a shopping center and would attack the Ankara citadel, mistaking it for a monster. Well, the venerable Quixote returns to life in today's Ankara in Mete Karakul's children's book titled "Don Quixote in Ankara." "

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