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    contemporarylit.about.com
    Sept 14 2005

    Orhan Pamuk Imprisoned in Turkey


    Turkish author, Orhan Pamuk, is currently being charged with
    insulting the Turkish Republic with statements published in a Swiss
    newspaper on February 6, 2005. Referring to the killings of thousands
    of Armenians between 1915-1917 and Kurdish Separatists since 1984,
    Pamuk is quoted as saying, "thirty thousand Kurds and a million
    Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk
    about it."

    International PEN, the worldwide association of writers promoting
    cooperation and freedom of expression, is urging that readers write
    Turkish leaders to protest Orhan Pamuk's upcoming trial on December
    16.
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