ORHAN PAMUK CLEARED OF CLAIMS FOR HIS REMARKS ON KILLINGS OF ARMENIANS

PanARMENIAN.Net
07.10.2009 20:09 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals on Wednesday
cleared ways for compensation claims against author Orhan Pamuk for
saying "30,000 Kurds and 1 million Armenians were killed on this
soil." Pamuk’s remarks were published by a Swiss magazine in 2005.

In May 2009, the Supreme Court overturned the local court ruling upon
an appeal by plaintiffs and ordered a new trial.

The Istanbul court reheard the suit and rejected the case once
again. However, the Supreme Court reversed the judgment after the
plaintiffs went for another appeal. Supreme Court judges also refused
Pamuk’s request for revision of decision.

Pamuk had said in his request that the court should consider the
consequences if every Turkish citizen had right to sue him. The
Istanbul court will have to hear the suit once again, Anatolian News
agency reported.