Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's other voice

Dominique Quinio regrets the adoption of a bill penalizing the negation of the Armenian genocide. "Once the Armenian genocide had been officially acknowledged by France in 2001, which is really what counts most, was it necessary to go even further? ... Should an attentive ear not have been leant to those Turkish intellectuals who are working on national memory and in their own country and who judge the French initiative unseasonable and likely to radicalize opposition? Do they not deserve support and confidence? And among them the one who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Orhan Pamuk. He has been distinguished for the greatest honour of his country and to the greatest exasperation of Turkish nationalists who have taken him to court precisely for raising the Armenian question. One hundred and six members of Parliament of all persuasions together decided otherwise."

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