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Turkey Proud of Pamuk Who Recently Stood Trial for Statements on Genocide
13.10.2006 17:05 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish officials and writing elite
of Turkey said they are proud of Orhan Pamuk. `We
congratulate Orhan Pamuk with the Nobel Prize awarding
and wish him every success in his career. The Turkish
public has for a long time waited to see a Turkish
writer awarded with Nobel Prize,’ says the statement
of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, reports RFE/RL.
It should be noted that not long ago Pamuk had to
stand trial for insulting Turkishness. The accusation
was brought over his statement on the Armenian
Genocide. In an interview with a Swiss newspaper Pamuk
said that `a million of Armenians and 30 thousand
Kurds were slaughtered in the Ottoman Empire.’
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