TURKISH WRITER STATEMENT ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CAUSE DISPLEASURE IN TURKEY

February 17, 2005 - 20:55 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkish writer Orkhan Pamuk stated that early last century the Ottoman authorities exterminated over one million Armenians and 30 thousand Kurds. The statement causes extreme discontent in Turkey. Thereupon Ulku Ojakh organization located a statement at its site, demanding that Pamuk apologize to the Turkish people. If the Turkish authorities do not make Pamuk and people like him answerable, these people "will feel our anger and will stop disseminating hatred towards Turkey and the Turkish people," the statement says. Pamuk was condemned by some other Turkish writers and media. Vatan newspaper has sharply criticized Orkhan Pamuk and Taner Akcam, calling them opportunists, "whose only desire is to sell their books full of lies."
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