Paul Auster Responds After Turkish Prime Minister Calls Him ‘an Ignorant Man’
By DAVE ITZKOFF
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The publication in Turkey of a new work by Paul Auster — even before it is released in the United States — would seem to be a cause for celebration there. But instead it has provoked a war of words between Mr. Auster, who has used the occasion to call attention to human rights violations in that country, and the Turkish prime minister, Tayyip Erdogan, who mocked the author as “an ignorant man.”
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