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    TURKISH GOVERNMENT CAN'T INTERVENE IN PAMUK CASE: PM

    Reuters
    Indian Express, India
    Oct 13 2005

    PARIS, OCTOBER12: The Turkish government cannot intervene to help
    a writer of world repute who could face prison for his views on the
    massacres of Armenians 90 years ago, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan
    said in comments published on Wednesday.

    Orhan Pamuk has been charged with insulting Turkish identity for
    supporting claims that Armenians suffered a genocide under Ottoman
    Turks in 1915. He faces three years in jail if convicted.

    Pamuk further upset the establishment and nationalists by saying
    that Turkish forces shared responsibility for the death of more than
    30,000 Kurds in southeast Turkey during separatist fighting there in
    the 1980s and 1990s.

    Erdogan told the French Le Monde newspaper that " the law is
    independent from the executive or the legislative authorities ... the
    executive authorities cannot interfere with the judiciary".

    Pamuk, best known for historical novels such as My Name is Red and The
    White Castle, goes on trial on December 16. His prosecution provided
    the European Union a focus for its concerns over whether Turkey's
    human rights record is compatible with the EU membership Ankara seeks.
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