IN ISTANBUL TWO STUDENTS WELCOME PAMUK WITH POSTERS THAT SAY ‘THERE HAD BEEN NO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE’
By Hakob Chakrian
AZG Armenian Daily
22/12/2006
On December 21, participating in "Orhan Pamuk and Literature"
colloquium at the Istanbul "Sabang" University, famous Turkish writer
met with the students. "Milliet" informed that this is the first
meeting of Pamuk with his readers after receiving the Nobel Prize
in Turkey.
By the end of the conference, two Turkish students, as a sign of
protest raised posters with the following message "There Had Been No
Armenian Genocide." While Orhan Pamuk was calmly looking at the two
students, the rest of the auditorium began resisting them and made
them leave the conference hall.
It’s worth mentioning that Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize for
Literature, aroused protest of the majority of the Turkish people,
when he touched upon the massacres of 30 thousand Kurds and 1 million
of Armenians in the interview to a Swiss newspaper.
Nevertheless, when Pamuk received "The Peace Prize" of the Writers
Union of Germany, he repeated his statement. He said: "I clearly
repeat that I said that 1 million of Armenians and 30 thousand of
Kurds were killed in our country. And I am responsible for my words."