Gosh, how many of us are on the way to winning, sharing and celebrating
prizes for demeaning the globally and domestically disastroush
Administration of George Bush and his putchiks?!! (new word).
The snow and ice in Sweden is melting, surely.
Stephen V
Blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
New blog site / same archives!
> On 28/10/05 1:54 AM, "Ken Wolman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I met a woman in an Armenian church in my
>> area and when I told her about Nazim Hikmet, she was flabbergasted that
>> a Turk would own what his countrymen had done. Poets perhaps belong to
>> their own race?
>
> Orhan Pamuk (the brilliant Turkish novelist) is facing prosecution for
> bringing the State into disrepute by remarking that large numbers of
> Armenians and Kurds were killed. Due to the EU thing it sounds as if he
> will not go to prison, but it's a chance.
>
> And he's just been hit with another lawsuit, for speaking "in a manner that
> degraded the Turkish soldier".
>
> http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&trh=20051026&hn=25773
>
> The lawsuit says in part: "it is clear from the case brought against him
> that the suspect has got into the habit of committing similar crimes;
> although Pamuk is actually a man of literature, he continues to interfere in
> political and historical matters on which he is not officially authorized to
> speak, and thus demeans the Turkish people, Turkish values as well as the
> Turkish military as a short cut to receive the Nobel and similar prizes.²
>
>
> Best
>
> A
>
>
> Alison Croggon
>
> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
> Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
> Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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