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Sunday, October 15 2006 @ 04:55 AM Central Daylight Time
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Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, said France was wrong in passing an Armenian genocide bill, but one should not make a mountain out of a mole hill.
In a telephone interview broadcast live on the private television network NTV, Pamuk, who faced criminal charges for his statements acknowledging the massacre earlier in the year, said: “What the French did is wrong. France has a very old tradition of liberal and critical thinking and I myself was influenced by it and learned much from it. But the decision they made constitutes a prohibition. It does not suit the French tradition of liberalism."
Related to the reactions on his Nobel Prize, Pamuk said there was never a Nobel prize that was not met with any reaction, describing the controversy it as a positive development, even when in Turkey. |
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