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    Turkish Writer Indicted for "Insulting Turkishness"

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    01.08.2006 14:46 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Arizona University professor, writer of Turkish
    origin Elif Shafak is indicted for "insulting Turkishness". Novel
    Father and Illegitimate Son gave cause for criminal prosecution
    on article 301 of the Turkish Criminal Code, which provides for
    imprisonment up to 3 years. The novel of the 35-year-old writer tells
    about the events in 1915 in the Ottoman Empire, reports United Press
    International.

    "Armenians and Turks live in different eras. If we want a genuine
    dialogue between the two parties, we need to recognize this time
    factor," Shafrak writes. One of heroines of the novel is Armenian
    Armanush, who tells about her ancestors, killed in the Armenian
    Genocide and waits for repentance.
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