by TurkeyPurge | Aug 20, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Nobel laureate novelist Orhan Pamuk said Turkey has imprisoned so many innocent people in arbitrary ways very recently, leading him to feel guilty even when working. In an interview with the US-based Slate magazine on Aug 18, Pamuk said: “As I tell my girlfriend, all...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 23, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Nobel laureate novelist Orhan Pamuk said on Wednesday that he cannot keep silent while there is tremendous political pressure on dissent and newspapers critical of the government are being closed down in Turkey. Speaking during a ceremony at St. Petersburg State...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 14, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
One of the leading newspapers in Turkey, the Hürriyet daily, has refused to publish an interview with Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s most famous writer and a Nobel laureate in literature, because the author voiced his objection to a constitutional reform package to be voted in...
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