"Turkey 'may drop charges' against celebrated writer
SELCUK GOKOLUK
CEMIL Cicek, Turkey's justice minister, has hinted that the case against novelist Orhan Pamuk, charged with 'insulting Turkish identity', may be dismissed.
Pamuk is charged under the country's revised penal code for saying in a Swiss newspaper interview that no-one dared discuss the alleged massacre of one million Armenians 90 years ago and the deaths of 30,000 Kurds in the past two decades.
The European Union has criticised the case and said it raised concerns over Turkey's commitment to European values."
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