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To have a pen, said Voltaire, is to have war, and Orhan Pamuk is learning this truth.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)
To have a pen, said Voltaire, is to have war, and Orhan Pamuk is learning this truth. He is Turkey's most famous writer, author of prize-winning novels. Published last year, his novel Snow attacks Islamism, and he has said that fundamentalists like Osama bin Laden are "a danger to the world." But in an interview with a Swiss paper he pointed out that Turks have killed a million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds, "and nobody but me dares to talk about it." The response has been to charge him with "insulting the country's national character," for which he faces a prison sentence of three years. And ...
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