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    TURKISH WRITER THREATENED WITH IMPRISONMENT FOR STATEMENTS ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    Pan Armenian News
    02.09.2005 04:09

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Well-known writer Orhan Pamuk can be sentenced
    to three years of imprisonment for the statements on the Armenian
    Genocide. The Turkish authorities initiated the investigation against
    Pamuk in February 2005 when during an interview with Tas Magazin Swiss
    edition he said, "30 thousand of Kurds and a million of Armenians
    were killed in Ottoman Turkey and no one except me dares to say
    that." Pamuk's statements aroused stormy negative reaction among the
    Turkish nationalists. Orhan Pamuk's trial is scheduled for December
    16. The writer's words can be rated as "offence of the Turkish national
    self-consciousness". Neither the writer nor the representatives of the
    Turkish Office of Prosecutor General have commented on the accusations
    yet, Reuters agency reports.
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