Turkish local official to be investigated over book-burning

NTV television, Istanbul
5 Apr 05

The Interior Ministry has assigned a civil servant inspector the task
of conducting an investigation into Mustafa Altinpinar, chief district
officer of Isparta’s Sutculer District, who issued a directive saying
that novelist Orhan Pamuk’s [winner of Turkish and international
literary prizes] books should be confiscated and destroyed.

It is reported that the inspector has already started his investigation
in Sutculer. Altinpinar had issued an order to confiscate, burn,
and destroy the books of Orhan Pamuk after a statement he issued on
the Armenian genocide in February.