21 September 2006

On trial for what?

According to The Guardian, a prize-winning novelist, Elif Shafak, was accused of belittling Turkishness. Her novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, a portrait of the friendship between an Armenian-American girl and a Turkish girl, has been at the top of bestseller lists in Turkey since its publication.
"I oppose all violence," the lawyer who accused her said, "but if you call somebody's grandfather a butcher, there is no telling what reactions will be."
A Turkish court recently acquitted her, citing a lack of evidence.

As if belittling Turkishness was hard.
Hell, a child could do it: Hey, Turkey, you're the sick man of Europe. You're named after an ugly bird. You're cheap booze. You won't admit your own miserable history. You look bad in movies. Your women wear mustaches.

They can serve my indictment for belittling Turkishness on-line...

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