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Nobel literary prize and armenian genocide law
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13/10/2006 08:54:13
Metin Emre
Ozcom Bilgisayar Ltd.
Istanbul, Turkey
 
 
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12/10/2006 09:08:30
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Message ID:
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>>Today a turk writer "Orhan Pamuk" won Nobel literary prize and France approved a law about if anyone say "there wasn't an armenian genocide in Turkey" it needs prison sentence.
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>>A headline from a turk website "Prize to who says we killed, prison to who says we don't" .
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>>footnote: Orhan Pamuk had said "there was an armenian genocide in Turkey"
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>Metin,
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>Wasn't he prosecuted, and acquitted, for insulting Turkishness or some such?

He acquitted. But if he wouldn't a famous man I'm sure he'll be prisoned. Today, another turkish writer Abdurrahman Dilipak got one year prison sentence about an article. His prison sentence converted to fine.
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