Thursday, February 01, 2007
Quietly Chilling News
Admittedly I've been too busy writing even to blog, stuck up in my study from 7 in the morning and into the evenings, lost in a made-up world, so I may have missed many things, but I didn't see another reference to that death threat to Orhan Pamuk until today. Today the Guardian reports in its international pages that the Turkish novelist has cancelled a book tour as a result of the apparent threat called out by Yasin Hayal, accused by the Turkish police of orchestrating the murder of the Turkish-Armenian editor Hrant Dink.
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Hi there, I think you did miss a little bit, just mentions. It's terrible, this whole turn of events. Even the crowds thronging the streets for Hrant Dink's funeral, with their signs saying "We are all Armenians" - what does that mean? Does it mean all these prosecutions are against the popular feeling? Did it really take this assassination to bring this out? Or is it something else - spurious feeling, or what?
I just hope Pamuk isn't going to be the next Rushdie.
Yes, that's what's so unnerving, not knowing precisely what these things mean...
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