"Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk ordered to pay compensation for remarks on Armenians
Mon, Mar 28 2011 09:09 CET
Turkish Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has been convicted of 'insulting Turkishness' and ordered to pay nearly $4,000 in compensation.
Turkish news media reported Sunday that a small claims court in the Sisli district of Istanbul ordered Pamuk to pay compensation to several plaintiffs over a remark he made in 2005 that was published in a Swiss newspaper. He said that 30,000 Turks and one million Armenians were killed in Turkey 'and nobody but me dares to talk about it.'"
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