Turkey Drops Charges Against Pamuk
Hoorah! Turkey has dropped the charges against Orhan Pamuk!
Turkey took advantage of a legal misunderstanding to drop its case.
This case was becoming an embarrassment for the Government, in Europe, at home, everywhere. The way they resolved it today was really through a convenient misunderstanding. The court trying Pamuk went to the Ministry of Justice asking permission to try him. The ministry said: actually, you don’t need permission from us. The court took that to mean that there was no case for him to answer and the trial collapsed.
The AP says that the lawyer that brought the case against Pamuk isn’t happy:
Nationalist lawyer Kemal Kerincsiz, who pushed for the trial of Pamuk, said he would appeal the court decision.
“It is a scandal,” Kerincsiz said by telephone. “Orhan Pamuk must be punished for insulting Turkey and Turkishness, it is a grave crime and it should not be left unpunished.”
[Shudder]
yeah right…what about hundreds of other less internationally recognized unfortunates???
Comment by Գագիկ — 1/26/2006 @ 7:21 am
They get Chinese fortune cookies like “You will buy new clothes”, so it’s okay.
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