Pan Armenian News
ORHAN PAMUK- CONDEMNED IN TURKEY, AWARDED IN GERMANY
24.06.2005 03:49
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer commended Turkish
writer Orhan Pamuk, who acknowledged the Armenian Genocide, thus receiving
German award for consolidation and peace and indignation of the Turkish
elite, Yerkir Online reported with reference to Milliyet Turkish newspaper.
In Fischer’s words, Pamuk is a courageous and enlightened individuality and
a staunch European and his works will certainly affect the debate in Turkey.
The newspaper reminds that since 1978 once in three years the award is given
to `people with independent thinking and courageous position, to people, who
with their works inspire the historical and cultural originality of the
European society.’ To note, Orhan Pamuk has many times stated that the
Armenian Genocide really took place thus causing the extreme indignation in
Turkey.