"Pregnant novelist faces trial of 'insulting' nation for writing on genocide
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Elif Shafak, one of Turkey's leading authors, is about to have a baby -- and go on trial.
The reason for this strange conjunction of joy and foreboding is her new novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, which has exposed her to a charge of "insulting Turkishness" because it touches on one of the most disputed episodes of her country's history -- the massacres of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire. "
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