Orhan Pamuk
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"Ferit Orhan Pamuk" is a Turkish people/Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over eleven million books in sixty languages, making him the country's best-selling writer.

Born in Istanbul, Pamuk is the author of novels including The White Castle, The Black Book (Pamuk novel)/The Black Book, The New Life (novel)/The New Life, My Name Is Red, Snow (Pamuk novel)/Snow and The Museum of Innocence.

As well as the Nobel Prize in Literature (the first Nobel Prize to be awarded to a Turkish citizen), Pamuk is the recipient of numerous other literary awards. My Name Is Red won the 2002 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, 2002 Premio Grinzane Cavour and 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

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Thirty-thousand Kurds and one million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it.

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Thirty-thousand Kurds were killed here, 1 million Armenians as well. And almost no one talks about it, ... Therefore, I do.

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I think perhaps it is a generational thing.

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I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, 'Where is this melancholy city you talk about? My Istanbul is a sunny place.

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There is nothing that constitutes a crime in this interview.

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He said. ''Therefore, I do.

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He complains. ''Otherwise it's offensive to discuss poverty and suicide; they talk about these things as if they happen in a land beyond the civilized world.

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There is no doubt that it will raise questions about the wisdom of Turkey's EU membership bid. How can it possibly claim to be a European country if it has such laws on the books, and if public prosecutors can bring such cases?

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