"Şafak recounts struggle with ultranationalists
Saturday, September 9, 2006
SUZAN FRASER
ISTANBUL - The Associated Press
For best-selling Turkish author Elif Şafak, September promises to be a month of both joy and tribulation.
Nine-months pregnant, the University of Arizona literature professor is set to give birth to her first child. But another important date looms: the start of her trial on charges of �insulting Turkishness� in her novel that deals with the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. "
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