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    PanARMENIAN.Net

    Turkish Court Found Pamuk Not Guilty
    29.07.2006 14:00 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ A Turkish court on Friday dropped a lawsuit against
    novelist Orhan Pamuk, rejecting a compensation demand by nationalists
    from the author for claiming that Turkey had killed more than 1
    million Armenians and more than 30,000 Kurds.

    Nationalist lawyer Kemal Kerincsiz and five other nationalists were
    seeking 6,000 Turkish Lira (US$4,500) each from Pamuk accusing him of
    "insulting, humiliating and making false accusations." Pamuk was
    quoted as telling a Swiss newspaper that:

    "Thirty-thousand Kurds and 1 million Armenians were killed in these
    lands, and nobody but me dares to talk about it," RFE/RL reminded,
    referring to AP.

    Kerincsiz had instigated an earlier high-profile court case against
    Pamuk for the same comments, but those charges were dropped earlier
    this year, under harsh criticism from the European Union, which Turkey
    hopes to join.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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