SHEKURE BASMAN: MY SON, ORKHAN PAMUK MADE GREAT MISTAKE BY RECOGNIZING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Azeri Press Agency
Oct 16 2006

"My son, Orkhan Pamuk made a great mistake by saying that 1.000.000
Armenians and 30.000 Kurds were killed in Turkey. Probably he said
it without any information," Shekure Basman, mother of Orkhan Pamuk
who was awarded Nobel Prize said, APA reports.

In her interview to Sabah newspaper Shekure Basman said that the
thoughts of her son were exaggerated by Turkish press.

"Orkhan told his thoughts to a Swiss newspaper. This newspaper has
only 30-40.000 circulations. But Turkish press exaggerated it; some
radicals launched a criminal case against my patriot son. If press
did not meddle in government’s affairs the interview given to Swiss
newspaper would not have produced a reaction. Turkish press is guilty;
the government has no deal with it. Talking about false Armenian
Genocide, Shekure Basman said that the teachers taught nothing about
it at schools.

"History books did not write about "Armenian genocide", so Orkhan
learnt nothing at school. He read nothing about it in history books,"
Shekure Basman said.