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Jan 31 2007
Death threats cancel Pamuk Germany trip
BERLIN, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish writer who received
the 2006 Nobel Prize for literature, has canceled his trip to Germany
for fear of being assassinated.
The author has received massive death threats from Turkish
Nationalists, the German Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper said
Wednesday.
Pamuk, 54, was to visit several major German cities and was to be
given an honorary doctorate at Berlin's Free University Friday. Yet
after the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, security
experts had advised him not to travel to Germany.
Like Dink, Pamuk in the past has spoken openly about the mass killing
of Armenians in 1915, which many observers call genocide. Turkey
still supports a law that bans insults against "Turkishness" and
calling the killings genocide. A bid to prosecute the Nobel laureate
on such charges was dropped early last year.
Yet Pamuk has attracted the wrath of Turkish Nationalists, with the
alleged wirepuller of the murder of Dink publicly warning Pamuk in
court.
Jan 31 2007
Death threats cancel Pamuk Germany trip
BERLIN, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish writer who received
the 2006 Nobel Prize for literature, has canceled his trip to Germany
for fear of being assassinated.
The author has received massive death threats from Turkish
Nationalists, the German Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper said
Wednesday.
Pamuk, 54, was to visit several major German cities and was to be
given an honorary doctorate at Berlin's Free University Friday. Yet
after the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, security
experts had advised him not to travel to Germany.
Like Dink, Pamuk in the past has spoken openly about the mass killing
of Armenians in 1915, which many observers call genocide. Turkey
still supports a law that bans insults against "Turkishness" and
calling the killings genocide. A bid to prosecute the Nobel laureate
on such charges was dropped early last year.
Yet Pamuk has attracted the wrath of Turkish Nationalists, with the
alleged wirepuller of the murder of Dink publicly warning Pamuk in
court.