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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Pinter remembered for work on Kurdish rights in Turkey

"Pinter remembered for work on Kurdish rights in Turkey
ISTANBUL - The Nobel Prize winner playwright Harold Pinter was a vocal opponent of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, likening U.S. President George W. Bush's administration to the Nazis and calling former British Prime Minister Tony Blair a 'mass murderer.' He also criticized a former ban on the Kurdish language in Turkey after the 1980 military coup and wrote a play on the issue"

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