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    PROF'S TRIAL TO START 4 DAYS BEFORE BABY'S BIRTH IS DUE
    Mike Cronin

    AZ Central.com, AZ
    Aug. 9, 2006

    The trial for University of Arizona Professor Elif Shafak has been
    scheduled for Sept. 21 in Istanbul, Turkey, just four days before
    she is due to deliver her baby.

    Shafak's lawyer requested the trial be postponed because of her due
    date, but the court refused.

    However, Marly Rusoff, Shafak's New York-based agent, is confident
    the trial date ultimately will be moved. advertisement

    Shafak, a native of Turkey, has been charged with "insulting
    Turkishness" under the controversial Article 301 of that country's
    penal code. If found guilty, Shafak could serve up to three years
    in prison.

    The European Union has repeatedly warned Turkey that the existence
    of the law could hinder its chance to become an EU member.

    The charges arose after Shafak's second novel written in English,
    The Bastard of Istanbul, was translated into Turkish and published
    in Turkey in March. It is already a bestseller there.

    The book is set to be published in the United States by Viking in
    early 2007.

    Fictional characters in the book refer to "Turkish butchers." They
    also talk about the genocide of Turkey's Armenian population from
    1915 to 1923. The Turkish government, like the U.S. government, does
    not recognize the death of up to 1.5 million Armenians during that
    time as genocide.

    But the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the definitive
    body of researchers who study genocide, has affirmed the historical
    fact of the Armenian genocide. Polish jurist Raphael Lemkin, when
    he coined the term genocide in 1944, cited the Turkish extermination
    of the Armenians and the Nazi extermination of the Jews as defining
    examples of what he meant.

    http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/080 9uaprof0809.html
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