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    NOBEL-WINNING TURKISH AUTHOR RELUCTANT TO TALK ABOUT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    February 16, 2015 - 17:00 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey's military, which has forced out civilian
    governments in the past, has been pushed to the sidelines but largely
    replaced with an Islamist and authoritarian government, Turkish Nobel
    laureate Orhan Pamuk said, according to Today's Zaman.

    "Authoritarian soldiers were pushed out but an authoritarian and
    Islamist government took their place," he said in an interview
    with Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Istanbul, referring to Turkey's
    recent history in which military influence over politics has slowly
    disappeared and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling Justice
    and Development Party (AK Party) have become the new center of power.

    He also said that the AK Party was "destroying the balance of powers,
    which is in fact the key to any democracy."

    "In that sense, Turkey is only an electoral democracy, but a democracy
    where the respect for human rights, free speech are violated every
    day," said Pamuk, adding that he sensed a deterioration when he
    last returned to Turkey from New York, where he teaches at Columbia
    University.

    "When I came back, I felt a climate of fear, people whispering,"
    he told AFP.

    However, Pamuk was reluctant to comment on the Armenian Genocide issue,
    after his remarks in 2005 brought him death threats as well as legal
    proceedings that were eventually abandoned.

    "I had a lot of trouble eight to 10 years ago because I talked freely
    about this subject," Pamuk said shortly.

    http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/188328/




    From: A. Papazian
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