"Turkey's Gul: writer will win genocide claim case
Sun Oct 9, 2005 7:58 PM IST165
PARIS (Reuters) - Turkey's foreign minister said on Sunday he was confident a court would dismiss charges against a best-selling Turkish writer who faces prison for his views on the massacres of Armenians 90 years ago.
Orhan Pamuk has been charged with insulting Turkish identity for supporting Armenian claims they suffered a genocide under Ottoman Turks in 1915. He faces 3 years in jail if convicted.
Pamuk further upset the establishment and nationalists by saying Turkish forces shared responsibility for the death of more than 30,000 Kurds in southeast Turkey during separatist fighting there in the 1980s and 1990s."
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