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Turkey: Novelist Orhan Pamuk gains suit at
law
29.7.2006
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A Turkish court on
Friday July 28, dropped a lawsuit against novelist
Orhan Pamuk, rejecting a compensation demand by
nationalists from the author for claiming that
Turkey had killed more than 1 million Armenians and
more than 30,000 Kurds.
Nationalist lawyer Kemal Kerincsiz and five other
nationalists were seeking 6,000 Turkish Lira
(US$4,500 or Ђ 3,700) each from Pamuk accusing him
of "insulting, humiliating and making false
accusations."
Pamuk was quoted as telling a Swiss newspaper that:
"Thirty-thousand Kurds and 1 million Armenians were
killed in these lands, and nobody but me dares to
talk about it."
Kerincsiz had instigated an earlier high-profile
court case against Pamuk for the same comments, but
those charges were dropped earlier this year, under
harsh criticism from the European Union, which
Turkey hopes to join. |
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk
Photo: AFP |
Armenians say that as many as 1.5 million of their
ancestors were killing in an organized genocidal
campaign by Ottoman Turks, and have pushed for
recognition of the killings as genocide around the
world, the AP reports.
Turkey vehemently denies that the killing of
Armenians by Ottoman Turks around the time of World
War I was genocide. Turkey acknowledges that large
numbers of Armenians died, but says the overall
figure is inflated and that the deaths occurred in
the civil unrest during the collapse of the Ottoman
Empire.
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