"The Turkish identity
The New York Times
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005
Next week, the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will address the United Nations on one of the issues threatening to slow down negotiations to admit Turkey into the European Union - recognizing Cyprus. But he should also address the question of Orhan Pamuk, the pre-eminent Turkish novelist who has been charged with "public denigration" of Turkish identity.
In February, a Swiss newspaper quoted Pamuk on Turkey's long-standing refusal to discuss the Armenian genocide and the deaths of 30,000 separatist Kurds more recently. Pamuk's remarks inflamed Turkish nationalists, and he left the country. He faces the possibility of three years in jail."
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