Turkish Nobel Winner Pamuk Fined for Armenian Remark
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Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 2006, was ordered to pay 6,000 liras ($3,850) for the crime of “insulting Turkishness,” Sabah newspaper reported.
A small claims court in the Sisli district of Istanbul ordered Pamuk to pay compensation to six plaintiffs for remarks he made in 2005 that were published in a Swiss newspaper supplement, Sabah said.