X
    Categories: News

Turkish Court Found Pamuk Not Guilty

PanARMENIAN.Net

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

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
Related Post