In praise of... Orhan Pamuk

Boy, you'd think that a nation that wanted to join the EU wouldn't start suing authors. Well, if your going to step in it, do it right... I guess.
BB

Leader
Friday December 16, 2005
The Guardian

It is not every day that a world-class writer ends up in court, still less so on charges of insulting his country. That is the deplorable fate of Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish author of acclaimed novels such as Snow, Istanbul and My Name is Red.