TURKISH WRITER THREATENED WITH IMPRISONMENT FOR STATEMENTS ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Pan Armenian News
02.09.2005 04:09
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Well-known writer Orhan Pamuk can be sentenced
to three years of imprisonment for the statements on the Armenian
Genocide. The Turkish authorities initiated the investigation against
Pamuk in February 2005 when during an interview with Tas Magazin Swiss
edition he said, “30 thousand of Kurds and a million of Armenians
were killed in Ottoman Turkey and no one except me dares to say
that.” Pamuk’s statements aroused stormy negative reaction among the
Turkish nationalists. Orhan Pamuk’s trial is scheduled for December
16. The writer’s words can be rated as “offence of the Turkish national
self-consciousness”. Neither the writer nor the representatives of the
Turkish Office of Prosecutor General have commented on the accusations
yet, Reuters agency reports.