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Turkish nationalists to sue Nobel Prize
Committee for awarding Orhan Pamuk
16.10.2006
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Newsdesk,
October 16, -- Turkish nationalists are going to sue
the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences for
awarding Nobel
Literature Prize 2006 to Orhan Pamuk.
The initiator of the suit is one of the leaders of
the Union of the Lawyers in Turkey (ULT), Kemal
Kerincsiz.
He states that the Nobel Committee awarded Pamuk the
prize guided by political motives; its decision was
made under influence of the Armenian Diaspora.
According to a representative of Turkish
nationalists; the suit against the academy will be
brought to Swedish court.
The writer was repeatedly criticized and accused by
nationalist of his native country, first of all by
the ULT for his expressions, protecting Armenian and
Kurdish minorities. Last time, a criminal action was
brought against Orhan Pamuk for his expressions on
Armenian Genocide and Kurdish problem.
Occasion for the action was given by the writer’s
interview to a Swiss magazine, in which Pamuk
stated: “Million of Armenians and 30,000 of Kurds
were murdered in the land and no one dares to talk
about it.”
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Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk
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The trial was sharply criticized by the European
Union; the latter called it “exam of Turkey’s
correspondence with democratic norms.” The action
was stopped in January 2006; appeal of the ULT,
which found “insulting Turkishness” in the writer’s
expressions, was rejected later; RSN informs.
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