[Zoryna note: The following article was translated from Turkish by the
Zoryan Institute, which does not necessarily agree with nor endorse
the contents of the article.]

"Easy Fame!"
By Ruhat Mengi
Vatan, September 20, 2006

Orhan Pamuk was able to have his name heard and have supporters in Europe,
when he made an international statement about a subject that he did not know
nor researched, even though this subject was critically important for
Turkey.

Elif Shafak, on the other hand, became famous when she was taken to court
about her book in which it was explained that "Turks butchered the Armenians
like lambs," and when she said that ‘When I came to the US, the Zoryan
Institute educated me, I solved the Genocide problem."

Even the TUSIAD intervened on behalf of this woman, stating that "but the EU
is really watching this trial."

You see how easy it is to become famous?

As Serdar Ortac’s song says, "if you can really move it like a belly dancer,
if your spine is flexible enough to distort the history even if detrimental
to your country, if you can defend positions similar to those of the
Armenian Diaspora by ignoring the true history, and if you can forget the
murdered Turkish diplomats years after these events, it is so easy.”