Turkish Writer Indicted for "Insulting Turkishness"

PanARMENIAN.Net
01.08.2006 14:46 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Arizona University professor, writer of Turkish
origin Elif Shafak is indicted for "insulting Turkishness". Novel
Father and Illegitimate Son gave cause for criminal prosecution
on article 301 of the Turkish Criminal Code, which provides for
imprisonment up to 3 years. The novel of the 35-year-old writer tells
about the events in 1915 in the Ottoman Empire, reports United Press
International.

"Armenians and Turks live in different eras. If we want a genuine
dialogue between the two parties, we need to recognize this time
factor," Shafrak writes. One of heroines of the novel is Armenian
Armanush, who tells about her ancestors, killed in the Armenian
Genocide and waits for repentance.