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    TURKISH NOVELIST UNDERGOES CIVIL SUIT
    By Culture & Art News

    Zaman, Turkey
    Sept 1 2005
    zaman.com

    Public prosecution has filed a civil suit against the famous Turkish
    novelist, Orhan Pamuk, for the "public denigration of Turkish
    identity".

    The Sisli Office of Public Prosecution demanded a prison term of six
    months to three years for the novelist who said in a Swiss newspaper
    last March that, " One million Armenians were killed in these lands
    and nobody but me dares to talk about it."

    Pamuk will be judged with the 301/1 article of the Turkish Penal Code
    (TCK).

    Pamuk's publisher, Iletisim Publishing, considering the novelist's
    deposition due to the inspection, announced there was no crime that
    constituted the denigration of the Turkish society.

    Since the claims did not constitute a crime according to article
    301/final, the court already decided that there was no need for
    prosecution on 1 July 2005, the publisher said.
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