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    A FRIEND'S BLOW TO ORHAN PAMUK

    Turkish Daily News
    Turkish Press Yesterday
    Oct 30 2006

    Major headlines from Turkish newspapers and their summaries on
    Oct. 29, 2006

    Sabah yesterday reported that Taner Akcam, a Turkish academic who
    maintains that mass killings of Armenians in 1915 were part of an
    organized campaign tantamount to genocide, is set to publish a book
    on the alleged genocide in the United States. The report referred
    to academic Taner Akcam as a "writer of the books accusing Turkey of
    genocide of Armenians."The book, titled "A Shameful Act," includes a
    letter from Orhan Pamuk, controversial Turkish winner of the Nobel
    Prize in Literature this year. After Pamuk's award was announced,
    he was criticized at home for having "sold out" his country to clinch
    the Nobel. Pamuk had previously said that Turks killed 30,000 Kurds
    and 1,000,000 Armenians, subjects about which the Turkish people are
    very sensitive. Some Turks felt that his political statements were the
    major reason he was awarded the Nobel. In its report, Sabah recalled
    that, following reactions to his words and his Nobel, Pamuk had toned
    down his stance on the Armenian genocide allegations.

    However, his letter in Akcam's book says, "This book is a perfect
    retrospective on the organized destruction of Ottoman Armenians written
    by a daring Turkish academic who has dedicated his life to record
    historical realities."Sabah said these expressions would be likely
    to give Pamuk a difficult time when he was in the midst of making an
    effort to deaden the Armenian controversy surrounding his Nobel.
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