'And you are Blind Mehmet's son-in-law! Especially you! Why are you looking at me with such disgust? I killed you, so what! And here I am crying... You killed me too! Brothers, friends, fellow countrymen... A whole generation slaughtered itself for no reason!.. Say hello to my homeland, son-in-law of Blind Mehmet! Say greetings to Anatolia!... May it not hold a grudge against us because we watered its soil with blood... And may God give a thousand curses to the executioners who made brothers break brothers!..'

Winner of the 1982 Abdi İpekçi Turkish-Greek Friendship Award, this is the most important and influential book by Dido Sotiriyu, a famous Greek writer with roots in Turkey, who had to emigrate from Turkey after the War of Independence. Dido Sotiriyu, who presents realistic sections from the lives of Greek minorities, who have a very important place in Turkey's cultural mosaic, before and during the War of Independence, introduces herself as follows: 'My father was a soap maker. During my childhood years, I lived with my family in Aydın, the province where I was born. In 1922, I had to leave Anatolia and go to Greece to live with my uncles. My family immigrated there later. The memories of my early childhood years were indelible in my mind. Even today I remember my father's friend Talat Bey, the Greek and Turkish children I played with on the street. I was so fascinated by the days I lived and the real events I heard about that the desire to write a book on this subject was growing like an avalanche. In 1962, I published a book titled My Greetings to Anatolia. In my opinion, this book is the first book to present the facts, and it is written from a completely unbiased point of view.'