Orhan Pamuk vs. Turkey
I’ve mentioned Turkish novelist Orham Pamuk a couple of times in the blog. Not a huge fan, but I now feel compelled to point out that he may go to jail for 3 years for the “public denigrating of Turkish identity” for his relatively factual comments on the Armenian genocide. This ultimately may jeopardize Turkey’s process of joining the EU. If you agree that this is BS, you can write to Turkish leaders & ambassadors.
September 18th, 2005 at 7:47 am
I believe he deserves a judgment but of course it should not be 3 years jail. Nobody can change people’s beliefs with force. However, What Orhan Pamuk said was not accordingly facts and he deserves a judgement. What he thinks he is to talk about my country where there is no fact. Plus, easy to say Turks killed 1m Armanien. Where is answer of WHY?? If they were killed does anybody asks why??? Armenians were the of the biggest danger in Turkey. Many times they associated with European countries against Turks.
There is nothing normal than to kill your enemies who tries to kill you before they do.
Orhan Pamuk wants to get a big success for his novel and he knows that it will come from European countries and he is just trying to show off to them. Just like, Kurds who doesn’t have any problem in Turkey but immigrates to EU countries saying Turkey torches them, just get free income from EU governments. Just to live a bit better.