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Turkey has place in a Europe of “liberté, egalité, and fraternité,says Pamuk :Ces-azerbaijan.org

"Turkey has place in a Europe of “liberté, egalité, and fraternité,says Pamuk
Posted by Cahangir

Nov 28

He is not just the 2006 Nobel Literature Laureate.

Orhan Pamuk is also a symbol of Turkey’s struggle to be part of the EU.

In recent weeks, he has been travelling around Europe and the US to promote his latest novel, ‘The Museum of Innocence’.

Yet just as he was being honoured in France, where the Season of Turkey is underway, the Turkish High Court ruled that anybody who “suffered mentally” because of what Pamuk had said about the Armenian genocide could sue him for pain and suffering."

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