"The Novelist Walks
Why did Turkey drop the charges against Orhan Pamuk?
By Hugh Eakin
Posted Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006, at 6:26 PM ET
With the abrupt cancellation this week of the trial of Orhan Pamuk, the celebrated Turkish writer, Turkey has sidestepped months of international censure. It has also temporarily salvaged its precarious bid to join the European Union. But the decision does not resolve the country's anxiety toward Europe and toward its own past—issues for which Pamuk has become an uncanny symbol."
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