NOBEL COMMITTEE SPLIT BECAUSE OF PAMUK
Turkish Press
Oct 10 2005
HURRIYET- It has been claimed that the Nobel committee was divided
into two because of Orhan Pamuk and couldn’t give the Nobel Literature
Prize.
The British Observer newspaper claimed that the committee which awards
the Nobel Prize for literature has delayed their decision for at
least a week amid reports of a split over honoring the controversial
Orhan Pamuk.
For the first time in at least 10 years, the literature prize was
announced neither in the run-up to, nor in the same week as the four
other main Nobel awards – medicine, physics, chemistry and peace. The
literature award is now due to be announced on Oct, 13, Thursday.
The newspaper claimed that as Pamuk has been a political figure
recently, the prize that can be given in literature to Pamuk could
be overshadowed by political debate.
GUL: PAMUK WILL WIN THE LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST HIM
ZAMAN – Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said that author Orhan
Pamuk will win the lawsuit which was filed against him due to his
statements regarding so-called Armenian genocide.
Gul said that earlier, similar lawsuits were opened in Turkey,
but courts decided that everybody has the right to express his/her
opinion. Gul noted that he did not have any doubt that the court’s
decision will be in favor of Pamuk.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress