Turkishness (2)

1 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-12-17 04:28 ID:7zL8Ts7X

http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,12700,1669458,00.html
"The trial of one of the world's leading novelists, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's most important free-speech test case for years, was adjourned for seven weeks yesterday."

"Pamuk [is] accused of "denigrating Turkishness" for stating that 30,000 people have died in Turkey's Kurdish conflict and that a million Armenians were killed in Turkey during the first world war"

"Denis MacShane, the former Europe minister, was punched in the courtroom by one of the nationalist lawyers and was then kicked upon leaving the court by another man who had been yelling "traitor" at the defendant."

"Later, Pamuk had to run a gauntlet of protesters calling on him to leave Turkey, as he was escorted through a cordon of riot police. A screaming woman threw herself at the writer and hit him on the head with a rolled-up plastic folder."

"The arguments of those in Europe opposed to Turkey's EU membership were strengthened by the charges against Pamuk, on straightforward freedom-of-expression grounds, the conduct of the trial and the chaotic police operation yesterday."

2 Name: Serdar Argic 2005-12-18 15:33 ID:Heaven

...the Armenian genocide of 2.5 million Muslim people!

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