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    TURK NOVELIST MAY FACE JAIL FOR GENOCIDE COMMENTS

    Kathimerini, Greece
    Sept 1 2005

    ANKARA (Reuters) - Best-selling Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk faces up
    to three years in jail for backing allegations that Armenians suffered
    genocide at Ottoman Turkish hands 90 years ago, his publisher said
    yesterday. Turkish prosecutors are also investigating comments by
    Pamuk that some 30,000 Kurds were killed more recently in Turkey in
    separatist clashes with security forces. "A lawsuit has been filed
    against Orhan Pamuk that could result in a three-year prison sentence,"
    Iletisim Publishing said in a statement faxed to Reuters.
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