"Turkey's EU bid hurt by charge
Emma-Kate Symons, Paris
September 03, 2005
TURKEY faces a new stumbling block in its bid for EU membership after it sparked a free-speech row by charging its most celebrated contemporary writer with 'denigrating national identity'.
Best-selling author Orhan Pamuk, whose novel Snow told of a Turkish poet's struggles against Islamist radicals forcing girls to wear Muslim garb in a remote town, could be jailed for three years for attacking the Ottoman massacre of Armenians after World War I."
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