Orhan Pamuk faces a charge in Ankara that he insulted "Turkishness", lawyers said. Mr Pamuk is being tried under Article 301, which makes it illegal to insult the republic, parliament or any organs of state. A guilty verdict can carry a prison sentence of up to three years.
"The case stems from a magazine interview earlier this year in which Mr Pamuk said: "One million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares talk about it."
Turkey maintains the deaths of Armenians in conflicts accompanying the collapse of the Ottoman empire in the early 20th Century were not part of a genocidal campaign, arguing that many ethnic Turks were also killed in that period.
Turkey also denies its efforts to contain a separatist uprising in its Kurdish community in the 1980s and 1990s can be classed as genocide.
Mr Pamuk has the highest profile among a group of more than 60 writers and publishers facing similar charges in Turkey."
Any opinions on Mr Parmuk and others being prosecuted for expressing an opinion about a historical event?
Originally posted by steerpikemakes you wonder what would have happened if Janet Jackson flashed her boob there huh.
Orhan Pamuk faces a charge in Ankara that he insulted "Turkishness", lawyers said. Mr Pamuk is being tried under Article 301, which makes it illegal to insult the republic, parliament or any organs of state. A guilty verdict can carry a prison sentence of up to three years.
"The case stems from a magazine interview earlier this year in which Mr Pamuk sa ...[text shortened]... Mr Parmuk and others being prosecuted for expressing an opinion about a historical event?
In Canada we have a gov't organisation called the C(anadian)R(adio-television)T(elecommunication)C(omission) that arbitraily decides what Canadians can and can't watch or listen to. I think many countries are far from free, despite what they say.