Uncategorized 15 Dec 2005 11:24 pm
Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish writer about to go on trial for the crime of denigrating the nation. Read about it at Literary Saloon and Maud Newton. I can’t see any specific campaigns for him at either Amnesty International or PEN but you could email them anyway.
Amnesty has this information about Article 301 and an extract is here.
Orhan Pamuk is an internationally-known Turkish author whose novels, including Snow and My Name is Red, have been translated into many languages and have received wide critical acclaim. He is facing charges under Article 301 for comments he made during an interview he gave to a Swiss newspaper (Tages Anzeiger) on 5 February 2005. In the interview, Orhan Pamuk stated, “30,000 Kurds and a million Armenians were murdered. Hardly anyone dares mention it, so I do. And that’s why I’m hated”. The first hearing of his case will take place in the Sisli Court of First Instance No. 2 in Istanbul on 16 December 2005.
Another way to support him is to buy his books.
