"A Turkish writer's plea
October 19, 2008
POLITICAL scientists evaluate societies with quantitative methods. Literary figures prefer a more telling, qualitative criterion: freedom of expression. The 2006 Turkish Nobel laureate for literature, Orhan Pamuk, delivered a devastating critique of the power elite in his own country last week when he lamented the oppression of Turkish writers in a speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair."
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