lørdag, september 03, 2005

Tyrkiet: Folkemord = National karakter?

Efter vi fandt ud af at Hitlers´"Mein Kampf" var en bestseller i Tyrkiet kommer nu fængslingen af en af landets bedste forfattere for at fortælle om Tyrkernes folkemord på over en million kriste armeniere under 1. Verdenskrig, og 30.000 kurdere siden 1984 (BBC):

One of Turkey's best-known novelists faces three years in jail for making controversial comments on his country's killing of Armenians and Kurds.

Orhan Pamuk has been charged with insulting Turkey's national character.

He was quoted in a Swiss paper as saying that only he had dared to say that Turkey killed 30,000 Kurds and a million Armenians.

Hvorfor er det lige vi skal forhandle om optagelse i EU med den bande holocaust-benægtere?

Henrik