Sunday, December 18, 2005

The Observer | International | Why a great writer's trial affects us all

"Why a great writer's trial affects us all

Denis MacShane says Turkey must not be allowed to airbrush its past

Sunday December 18, 2005
The Observer

Across the world, a popular present for the reading classes this Christmas will be a novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. He has the politics of moneyed liberal-leftism, but all that matters to Pamuk is writing novels."

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