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Jan 31 2007
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Nobel-prize Pamuk cancels German trip amid safety fears
01/31/2007
Earlier this month prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink
was murdered in Istanbul and a key suspect in that murder warned
Pamuk he should be careful.
Nobel-prize winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk
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Nobel-prize winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk has cancelled a trip
to Germany at short notice, his German publisher said on Wednesday as
media reported he was worried about his personal security.
Pamuk, who won the Nobel prize for literature in October, had been
due to visit several German cities, including Cologne, Hamburg,
Stuttgart and Munich on a book reading tour starting at the end of
this week.
"He has cancelled his trip, we do not have further information," said
a spokeswoman for Hanser publishers in Munich. Pamuk was unavailable
for comment.
Berlin's Free University also said the writer had cancelled a visit
to collect an honorary doctorate on Friday.
The Koelner Stadt Anzeiger newspaper reported that Pamuk was worried
about a possible attack.
Earlier this month prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink
was murdered in Istanbul and a key suspect in that murder warned
Pamuk he should be careful.
Pamuk's best-known novels include My Name is Red and Snow, works that
focus on the clash between past and present, East and West,
secularism and Islamism - problems at the heart of Turkey's struggle
to develop.
Dink and Pamuk had both been prosecuted under laws restricting
freedom of expression in Turkey, which wants to join the European
Union.
In a what was seen as a test case for freedom of speech in Turkey,
Pamuk was tried for insulting "Turkishness" after telling a Swiss
paper in 2005 that 1 million Armenians had died in Turkey during
World War One and 30,000 Kurds had perished in recent decades.
The murdered Dink, 52, had been a hate figure for ultra-nationalists
because he had urged Turks to acknowledge the mass killing of
Armenians on Turkish soil in 1915, still a highly sensitive issue in
Turkey.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Jan 31 2007
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Nobel-prize Pamuk cancels German trip amid safety fears
01/31/2007
Earlier this month prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink
was murdered in Istanbul and a key suspect in that murder warned
Pamuk he should be careful.
Nobel-prize winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk
Related newsTurkish-Armenian editor shot dead in Istanbul
Man who killed Turkish-Armenian journalist arrested
Nobel-prize winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk has cancelled a trip
to Germany at short notice, his German publisher said on Wednesday as
media reported he was worried about his personal security.
Pamuk, who won the Nobel prize for literature in October, had been
due to visit several German cities, including Cologne, Hamburg,
Stuttgart and Munich on a book reading tour starting at the end of
this week.
"He has cancelled his trip, we do not have further information," said
a spokeswoman for Hanser publishers in Munich. Pamuk was unavailable
for comment.
Berlin's Free University also said the writer had cancelled a visit
to collect an honorary doctorate on Friday.
The Koelner Stadt Anzeiger newspaper reported that Pamuk was worried
about a possible attack.
Earlier this month prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink
was murdered in Istanbul and a key suspect in that murder warned
Pamuk he should be careful.
Pamuk's best-known novels include My Name is Red and Snow, works that
focus on the clash between past and present, East and West,
secularism and Islamism - problems at the heart of Turkey's struggle
to develop.
Dink and Pamuk had both been prosecuted under laws restricting
freedom of expression in Turkey, which wants to join the European
Union.
In a what was seen as a test case for freedom of speech in Turkey,
Pamuk was tried for insulting "Turkishness" after telling a Swiss
paper in 2005 that 1 million Armenians had died in Turkey during
World War One and 30,000 Kurds had perished in recent decades.
The murdered Dink, 52, had been a hate figure for ultra-nationalists
because he had urged Turks to acknowledge the mass killing of
Armenians on Turkish soil in 1915, still a highly sensitive issue in
Turkey.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress