contemporarylit.about.com
Sept 14 2005
Orhan Pamuk Imprisoned in Turkey
Turkish author, Orhan Pamuk, is currently being charged with
insulting the Turkish Republic with statements published in a Swiss
newspaper on February 6, 2005. Referring to the killings of thousands
of Armenians between 1915-1917 and Kurdish Separatists since 1984,
Pamuk is quoted as saying, “thirty thousand Kurds and a million
Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk
about it.”
International PEN, the worldwide association of writers promoting
cooperation and freedom of expression, is urging that readers write
Turkish leaders to protest Orhan Pamuk’s upcoming trial on December
16.