A Brawl Over Turkish Press Freedom
By SUSANNE FOWLER
| February 4, 2012, 1:00 am1
PARIS — A war of words between an American novelist and the prime minister of Turkey over press freedom is playing out in a befittingly public venue: in newspapers and on Web sites.
Author Paul AusterLucas Dolega/European Pressphoto AgencyAuthor Paul Auster
Paul Auster, author of “The New York Trilogy” and other works, told Rendezvous by telephone from his studio in Brooklyn on Friday that he had told a Turkish journalist that he would not visit Turkey, nor China for that matter, as a way to protest the jailing of scores of journalists and writers there.
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