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Pamuk's photograph torn to pieces
Pamuk's photograph torn to pieces
Turkish Daily News
Apr 03, 2005
While some trade unions and nongovernmental organizations in Isparta's
Sutculer district have protested internationally acclaimed writer
Orhan Pamuk, many people and groups including publishers' association
and some columnists have expressed their support for the writer,
reported news agencies.
Seven trade unions and five associations held a joint press conference
yesterday in Ysparta's Sutculer district, where they tore photographs
of Pamuk to pieces and threw them into a litter box.
"So-called writer Orhan Pamuk is drinking this country's water and
eating its bread but making statements supporting the claims of
Armenian lobbies. We are calling for public prosecutors to act on
his words," said Sebahattin Ozturk at the joint press conference,
reported the Doethan News Agency.
The Sutculer Tradesmen's Chamber has announced that they will hold
a rally on April 12 to show their support for the Turkish flag and
protest Pamuk. Talking to the Anatolia news agency, the chambers
chairman Muharrem Oztut said they will not burn the books of Pamuk
during the rally.
Previously, the local administrator of Isparta's Sutculer district,
Mustafa Altynpynar, had issued a directive to all state libraries
under his jurisdiction ordering the seizure and destruction of all
books written by Pamuk, for Pamuk's statements about the alleged
Armenian genocide.
During an interview with Swiss daily Tagesanzeiger, Pamuk said,
"Some 30,000 Kurds and 1 million Armenians were killed in Turkey. No
one dares to speak about this but me."
Publishers' association backs Pamuk
Holding a press conference on Thursday, Turkish Publishers' Association
(TYB) Chairman Metin Celal said they condemn the directive issued by
the Sutculer's local administrator. "The local administrator acted
not as a representative of a legal state but as if he were the sultan
of the district," said Celal, adding, "The administrator, who is in
charge of enforcing the law, acted illegally in this incident."
Kurdish Democracy, Culture and Solidarity Association (Kurd-Der)
Diyarbakyr spokesman Ybrahim Guclu criticized the act of the local
administrator against Pamuk's books and said that everyone should be
sensitive to the increasingly chauvinistic and nationalistic tendencies
among people, reported Doethan
Pamuk's photograph torn to pieces
Turkish Daily News
Apr 03, 2005
While some trade unions and nongovernmental organizations in Isparta's
Sutculer district have protested internationally acclaimed writer
Orhan Pamuk, many people and groups including publishers' association
and some columnists have expressed their support for the writer,
reported news agencies.
Seven trade unions and five associations held a joint press conference
yesterday in Ysparta's Sutculer district, where they tore photographs
of Pamuk to pieces and threw them into a litter box.
"So-called writer Orhan Pamuk is drinking this country's water and
eating its bread but making statements supporting the claims of
Armenian lobbies. We are calling for public prosecutors to act on
his words," said Sebahattin Ozturk at the joint press conference,
reported the Doethan News Agency.
The Sutculer Tradesmen's Chamber has announced that they will hold
a rally on April 12 to show their support for the Turkish flag and
protest Pamuk. Talking to the Anatolia news agency, the chambers
chairman Muharrem Oztut said they will not burn the books of Pamuk
during the rally.
Previously, the local administrator of Isparta's Sutculer district,
Mustafa Altynpynar, had issued a directive to all state libraries
under his jurisdiction ordering the seizure and destruction of all
books written by Pamuk, for Pamuk's statements about the alleged
Armenian genocide.
During an interview with Swiss daily Tagesanzeiger, Pamuk said,
"Some 30,000 Kurds and 1 million Armenians were killed in Turkey. No
one dares to speak about this but me."
Publishers' association backs Pamuk
Holding a press conference on Thursday, Turkish Publishers' Association
(TYB) Chairman Metin Celal said they condemn the directive issued by
the Sutculer's local administrator. "The local administrator acted
not as a representative of a legal state but as if he were the sultan
of the district," said Celal, adding, "The administrator, who is in
charge of enforcing the law, acted illegally in this incident."
Kurdish Democracy, Culture and Solidarity Association (Kurd-Der)
Diyarbakyr spokesman Ybrahim Guclu criticized the act of the local
administrator against Pamuk's books and said that everyone should be
sensitive to the increasingly chauvinistic and nationalistic tendencies
among people, reported Doethan