Novelist charged

Kansas City Star, KO
Sept 1 2005

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ISTANBUL – Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk has been charged with the
“public denigrating of Turkish identity” and faces a possible prison
sentence of three years, his publisher said Wednesday.

The charge stems from an interview that Pamuk gave to a Swiss
newspaper in February in which he said that certain topics were
regarded as off-limits in Turkey. As examples, he listed the massacre
of Armenians in 1915 and the ongoing war between Turkish security
forces and Kurdish guerrillas.