Deutsche Presse-Agentur
January 30, 2007 Tuesday 7:59 PM EST
Nobel winner Pamuk cancels German trip over security fears: report
DPA CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT Germany Culture Turkey Nobel winner Pamuk
cancels German trip over security fears: report Cologne
Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish author who received the
Nobel Literature Prize last month, has cancelled a promotional trip
to Germany because of fears that he may be killed if he leaves his
home, a German newspaper was to report Wednesday.
Pamuk, 54, has received threats from Turkish nationalists. The
newspaper Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger said his German publisher confirmed
that a national tour set to begin with an honorary doctorate award at
the Free University of Berlin this Friday was off.
It said Pamuk was concerned after the assassination of an ethnic
Armenian journalist in Turkey, Hrant Dink. Experts said he was not in
greater danger in Germany than in Turkey, but put himself at risk by
leaving his home.
Pamuk was awarded the world’s most prestigious literature prize
for his novels, mostly set in Istanbul. A bid to prosecute him for
insulting "Turkishness" was dropped early last year.