January 22, 2007 - 17:19 AMT
Orhan Pamuk: We Are All Responsible for Dink's Death
"We are all responsible for Dink's death," Turkish author, Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk when visiting the family of murdered journalist Hrant Dink at their home in Istanbul yesterday. Pamuk, who told reporters that words could not even describe his sorrow, said, "In a sense, we are all responsible for his death. However, at the very forefront of this responsibility are those who still defend Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code. Those who campaigned against him, those who portrayed this sibling of ours as an enemy of Turkey, those who painted him as a target, they are the most responsible in this. And then, in the end, we are all responsible," reports Hurriyet.