New novel by Orhan Pamuk presented in Moscow
On August 27-30, renowned Turkish writer and Noble Prize laureate Orhan Pamuk visited Moscow to present his new novel entitled "Museum of Innocence".
The visit was organized under the aegis of Turkish Embassy in Russia and Turkish General Consulate in St. Petersbutrg. Within presentation frameworks, the Institute of Asian and African countries organized a press conference and a lecture
Orhan Pamuik currently resides in Germany where he found a shelter after nationalists' threats and the assassination of Armenian-Turkish "Agos" newspaper's Editor-in-Chief Hrant Dink. In a 2006 interview with a Swiss newspaper, Pamuk used the word Genocide to characterize the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians and 30 thousand Kurds in Turkey.
The visit was organized under the aegis of Turkish Embassy in Russia and Turkish General Consulate in St. Petersbutrg. Within presentation frameworks, the Institute of Asian and African countries organized a press conference and a lecture
Orhan Pamuik currently resides in Germany where he found a shelter after nationalists' threats and the assassination of Armenian-Turkish "Agos" newspaper's Editor-in-Chief Hrant Dink. In a 2006 interview with a Swiss newspaper, Pamuk used the word Genocide to characterize the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians and 30 thousand Kurds in Turkey.
