[1] Altınay stated that "the main question that shapes my work and my life" is "Are we going to turn our pain into more violence, hate, pain and injustice, or into steps that multiply life, beauty, love, peace and justice?
As a result, she was persecuted for "willingly and knowingly supporting a terrorist organisation as a non-member" and sentenced to 25 months in jail.
[2] Altınay denied that she supported terrorism and said that signing the petition was "an act of conscience for a peaceful future shaped by nonviolence, democracy, and human rights law".
Alev Cinar praised it as "a rich and highly informative ethnographic study of the ways in which nationalism and citizenship in Turkey have been pervaded by a discourse and culture of militarism".
[10] Rebecca Bryant stated that the book was "analytically sharp and politically brave" and "an important and timely work that addresses one of the problems most central to Turkey's prospects of a European future".