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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9019

3 September 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/turkey/human rights

02/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - On 1 September PanayotisBeglitis MEP asked a written question of the Council and Commission after he learned that the courts in Istanbul had launched criminal investigations against novelist Orhan Pamuk for 'insulting the Turkish identity' because he dared to suggest in a Swiss newspaper that Turkey had to recognise that a million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds had been killed by Turks and Turkey had to make peace with its past. This is a violation of the Copenhagen...

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