Novelist accused of insulting 'Turkishness'
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ISTANBUL -- In a new case pitting free speech against Turkish nationalists, a young novelist is due in court here this week to defend herself against charges that she insulted ``Turkishness" because a character in her newest book, ``The Bastard of Istanbul," refers to the deaths of Armenians in 1915 as genocide.
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Britain's knighthood to the author Salman Rushdie contributes to insulting Islam and may lead to terrorism, a Pakistani minister says.
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ANKARA, Turkey  - His books have sold more copies  than almost any other author in Europe this year and are hotly  debated by housewives and intellectuals alike, but newspapers  are reluctant to publish his work.
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The selection of Israel as guest of honor at this springâs International Book Fair in Turin has set off a furious debate.
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An official for Turk Telekom says the court is lifting the block on YouTube, imposed because of videos insulting to the founder of modern Turkey. By the Associated Press.
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One of Turkey's leading authors was acquitted Thursday of "insulting Turkishness" in a novel that touched on the mass killings of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire.
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A drama producer and friend of embattled playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti defends her writing.
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HAY-ON-WYE  - Nobel prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, threatened by a suspect in the murder of a journalist, said on Tuesday he had recently been in Turkey and did not consider himself a writer in exile.
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Literary heavyweights, including Thomas Pynchon, have been expressing their indignation on behalf of Ian McEwan.
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One of BritainÂs most lauded authors has been accused in newspaper articles of copying phrases for his best-selling novel ÂAtonementÂ in 2001 from a memoir published in 1977.
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A person or persons claiming to represent Turkish interests have defaced a Vietnam War memorial site run by vets. "Turk Defacer" left messages attacking the U.S., Israel, Armenia and the Kurds, the latter two of which have been targets of Turkish genocidal efforts.
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ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 23 -- A politician was charged Friday with inciting hatred and threatening public safety after suggesting that fellow Kurds would rise against the state and fight if Turkey ever attacked their Kurdish brethren in neighboring Iraq.
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Â· Best-selling novelist fears for safety over web jibesÂ· Libel case defendant accused of 'jew hating'
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A Turkish judge acquitted a prominent  author on Thursday in a case seen as a fresh test of freedom of  expression in the European Union candidate nation.
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ISTANBUL, Sept. 9 -- Elif Shafak, one of Turkey's leading authors, is about to have a baby -- and go on trial.
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A lawyer for best-selling novelist Orhan  Pamuk chided Turkey's justice minister on Friday for suggesting  his client was to blame for the controversy surrounding an  article of the penal code blasted by the EU.
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A political science professor was convicted Monday of insulting the revered founder of modern Turkey and given a 15-month suspended prison sentence, a news report said.