Turkish Daily News
March 28 2005

Domestic Newsline
Monday, March 28, 2005

Pamuk’s books burned in flag display demonstration

ANK ~V Turkish Daily News

Writer Orhan Pamuk’s books along with flags of the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK/Kongra-Gel) were burned during a flag
display demonstration on Sunday in Bilecik, 313 kilometers west of
Ankara, reported the Doðan News Agency.

The demonstration was prompted by an attempt to burn a Turkish flag
in the southern city of Mersin during Nevroz celebrations last week.

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Bilecik deputy Fahrettin
Poyraz and Republican People’s Party (CHP) Bilecik deputy Yaþar Tüzün
attended the demonstration.

The demonstrators carried banners condemning internationally
renowned writer Pamuk for claiming that large numbers of Armenians
and Kurds were killed in Turkey.

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