Turkey drops controversial charges against leading author
22 January 2006
CBC News
{Turkish novelist Orhan}Pamuk was charged after he told a Swiss newspaper last year that discussion of Turkey's role in the deaths of Armenians in World War One and Kurds in the 1980s was suppressed.
[...]
Turkey dropped the case against Pamuk because the justice department concluded it had no authority to try him under the new penal code, CNN Turk TV reported.
He made the comment to the Swiss paper before the code came into effect.
FROM DEC. 15, 2005: Trial postponed for Turkish writer Pamuk
The case was adjourned soon after it began on Dec. 16 while the court sought an opinion on the effect of the new code.
Pamuk, who has written best-sellers including Snow and My Name is Red, may be a contender for the Nobel Prize.
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.
CBC News
{Turkish novelist Orhan}Pamuk was charged after he told a Swiss newspaper last year that discussion of Turkey's role in the deaths of Armenians in World War One and Kurds in the 1980s was suppressed.
[...]
Turkey dropped the case against Pamuk because the justice department concluded it had no authority to try him under the new penal code, CNN Turk TV reported.
He made the comment to the Swiss paper before the code came into effect.
FROM DEC. 15, 2005: Trial postponed for Turkish writer Pamuk
The case was adjourned soon after it began on Dec. 16 while the court sought an opinion on the effect of the new code.
Pamuk, who has written best-sellers including Snow and My Name is Red, may be a contender for the Nobel Prize.
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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