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    ACCLAIMED WRITER CHARGED FOR REMARKS

    Seattle Times, WA
    Sept 1 2005

    Istanbul, Turkey
    Acclaimed Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk has been charged with insulting
    the nation and its people by speaking out against the mass deaths of
    Armenians during and after World War I and the more recent killings
    of Kurds, his publisher said yesterday.

    Pamuk, 53, will go on trial in December and could face three years
    in prison under the country's revised penal code, which deems
    denigrating Turks and Turkey a punishable offense, the Iletisim
    Publishing House said in its written statement. Turkish officials
    declined to comment. Another law prohibits Pamuk from commenting on
    his case while it is pending.

    The charge stems from an interview Pamuk gave to a Swiss newspaper in
    February in which he said certain topics were regarded as off-limits
    in Turkey. As examples, he listed the massacre of Armenians in 1915
    and the war between Turkish security forces and Kurdish guerrillas.

    "Thirty-thousand Kurds were killed here, 1 million Armenians as well.

    And almost no one talks about it," Pamuk told the newspaper,
    Tages-Anzeiger. "Therefore, I do."
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