Speak no evil
Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish author of My Name is Red and Snow, has been charged with insulting his country’s national character. As the BBC reports, he was quoted in a Swiss newspaper as saying that “only he dared to say that Turkey killed 30,000 Kurds and a million Armenians.” Pamuk will now stand trial for the charge of “public denigration” of Turkish identity, a crime under the country’s heavily criticized — and newly revised — penal code.
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