ELIF SHAFAK’S BOOK TO BE TRANSLATED INTO ARMENIAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
04.06.2007 16:45 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ During a recent book fair in Saloniki Armenian
publishers reached agreement with Turkish counterparts on translation
of Elif Shafack’s The Bastard of Istanbul into Armenian, said
Vahan Khachatryan, chairman of the national association of Armenian
publishers.
The book describes the events of 1915-1917 as the Armenian Genocide.
Elif Shafak was charged of "insulting Turkishness" under Article
301 of the Turkish criminal code. In October 2006 the accusations
were dropped.