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    ORHAN PAMUK: I DID NOT USE TERM "GENOCIDE"

    Pan Armenian
    17.10.2005 23:30 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk abandoned his statements
    characterizing the carnages of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in
    1915 as Genocide. Pamuk said his words were wrongly interpreted. "I
    did not use term "genocide" and I announced the number of victims
    spontaneously," he stated.

    To note, the court session on Orhan Pamuk's case is to be held
    late this year. To remind, February 2005 during an interview with
    a Swiss newspaper Pamuk stated that "1 million Armenians and 30
    thousand Kurds were slaughtered in Turkey." Then he was threatened
    with persecution and even savage punishment. It should be also noted
    that the Istanbul court recently sentenced editor-in-Chief of Akos
    newspaper Hrant Dink to 6 months of conditional imprisonment for
    "outraging national identity of Turks." Last year Dink called upon
    Armenians not to poison their blood with hatred towards Turks. In
    Dink's opinion, the court interpreted his words as "poisonous blood
    of Turks". Dink is going to appeal the verdict and in case of failure
    to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, reported IA Regnum.
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