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Turkish Court Found Pamuk Not Guilty
29.07.2006 14:00 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A Turkish court on Friday dropped a lawsuit against
novelist Orhan Pamuk, rejecting a compensation demand by nationalists
from the author for claiming that Turkey had killed more than 1
million Armenians and more than 30,000 Kurds.
Nationalist lawyer Kemal Kerincsiz and five other nationalists were
seeking 6,000 Turkish Lira (US$4,500) each from Pamuk accusing him of
“insulting, humiliating and making false accusations.” Pamuk was
quoted as telling a Swiss newspaper that:
“Thirty-thousand Kurds and 1 million Armenians were killed in these
lands, and nobody but me dares to talk about it,” RFE/RL reminded,
referring to AP.
Kerincsiz had instigated an earlier high-profile court case against
Pamuk for the same comments, but those charges were dropped earlier
this year, under harsh criticism from the European Union, which Turkey
hopes to join.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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