Turkey, Power of the Press
January 19th, 2007
In Turkey, where Orhan Pamuk (2006 Nobel for Lit) is from, Hrant Dink has been killed. Dink was seemingly killed for his stance on the Armenian Genocide of World War I. Both he and Pamuk were tried and convicted of slandering Turkish Identity because they spoke out about it. There is of course outcry about this. And it doesn’t look good for Turkey, trying to get into the EU.
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