Premise:
"The book ends with a reflection on the argument between those intellectuals who advocate an organic relationship with the black community and those who aspire to transcend ethnic considerations, suggesting, affably, that the choice must be left, in our individualist culture, for each of us to make for ourselves."
Hypothesis: The book ends with the argument

it is not possible to tell

Premise:
"And what about me now?"
Hypothesis: Do you think about me now?

it is not possible to tell

Premise:
"He therefore commissioned a vast new palace on the shores of the Bosphorus, on the site of a park that had been created by filling in an old harbour (dolmabahce means filled-in garden )."
Hypothesis: The new palace was on the coast.
yes