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    TURKISH NOBEL LAUREATE ORHAN PAMUK ORDERED TO PAY COMPENSATION FOR REMARKS ON ARMENIANS

    The Sofia Echo
    http://www.sofiaecho.com/2011/03/28/1066152_turkish-nobel-laureate-orhan-pamuk-ordered-to-pay-compensation-for-remarks-on-armenians
    March 28 2011
    Bulgaria

    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."

    Armenians claim that at least one and a half million of their people
    perished at the hands of Ottoman Turks in the early decades of the
    20th century, in what they describe as genocide.

    The Turkish government fiercely denies that the killings were massive
    and systematic, and claims that Turks and Armenians alike were killed
    in the violence surrounding the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The topic
    is largely taboo in Turkey.

    Pamuk is Turkey's most prominent writer. He received a Nobel Prize
    for literature in 2006.

    Turkish news reports say that among those who will receive compensation
    is Kemal Kerincsiz, a nationalist lawyer who is currently under arrest
    in a suspected conspiracy against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.




    From: A. Papazian
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