German Press Agency
Feb 1 2007
Nobel Winner Pamuk Flies To New York After Cancelling German Trip
Nobel Literature Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk flew to New York
on Thursday, a day after cancelling a promotional trip to Germany and
belgium citing security fears, the Anadolu news agency reported.
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 had been called off.
It said Pamuk was concerned after the assassination last month of
Hrant Dink, an ethnic Armenian journalist in Turkey. 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 on a technicality early last
year.
Anadolu reported that in the United States Pamuk would make addresses
to various universities.
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