Orhan Pamuk is Turkey's most widely read living author. His fame and his liberal views have made him a symbol of Turkish aspirations to join the European Union. But the decision of a Turkish state prosecutor to try him for "publicly denigrating" the nation reinforced European ambivalence in some cases, outright hostility toward admitting the mainly Muslim country.
Pamuk is due to face trial in December for comments made to the Swiss newspaper
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in February in which he criticized Turkey's refusal to discuss the mass killings of Armenians at the start of the last century,...
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