Pamuk stands by Armenian massacre remarks
22/10/2005
News.Telegraph
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk said today that he stood by remarks he made about the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks and about the deaths of Kurds in Turkey even though they could land him in jail for three years.
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"I repeat, I said loud and clear that 1 million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds were killed in Turkey, and I stand by that," Pamuk told a news conference in Frankfurt, where he is due to receive a major literary award on Sunday.
Turkey's most prominent writer said he had not used the word "genocide" to describe the mass killings of Armenians in 1915. "Whether it should be called 'genocide' or 'mass murder'… or something else, has to be decided by experts."
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News.Telegraph
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk said today that he stood by remarks he made about the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks and about the deaths of Kurds in Turkey even though they could land him in jail for three years.
[...]
"I repeat, I said loud and clear that 1 million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds were killed in Turkey, and I stand by that," Pamuk told a news conference in Frankfurt, where he is due to receive a major literary award on Sunday.
Turkey's most prominent writer said he had not used the word "genocide" to describe the mass killings of Armenians in 1915. "Whether it should be called 'genocide' or 'mass murder'… or something else, has to be decided by experts."
[...]
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
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