{"id":79842,"date":"2011-03-28T10:33:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T05:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=79842"},"modified":"2011-03-28T10:34:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T05:34:17","slug":"turkish-court-orders-orhan-pamuk-to-pay-compensation-for-his-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/28\/turkish-court-orders-orhan-pamuk-to-pay-compensation-for-his-words.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Court Orders Orhan Pamuk to Pay Compensation for his Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nobel Prize recipient Orhan Pamuk will pay 6,000 liras in total compensation to five people for writing in 2005, \u201cThe Turks have killed 30,000 Kurds and 1 million Armenians in this land.\u201d Pamuk has 15 days to appeal the court decision levying the fine, according to the legal procedures, reports the Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The prominent Turkish writer was sued in 2005 by five people, including lawyer Kemal Kerin\u00e7siz, the head of the Lawyers\u2019 Association at the time and currently under arrest in the Ergenekon court case, as well as four other people who are relatives of soldiers killed in action. They accused Pamuk of \u201chaving accused all Turkish people.\u201d The \u015ei\u015fli court in Istanbul initially rejected to hear the case, arguing that \u201cthe complainants are simply individuals of the Turkish nation\u201d and thus it was impossible to accept that individual rights had been violated.<\/p>\n

Kerin\u00e7siz then appealed the case to the Supreme Court of Appeal, which decided to reject the court decision and thus asked the \u015ei\u015fli court to consider the case once more. After the latter\u2019s resistance, the file was sent to the Supreme Court of Appeal\u2019s General Committee. The committee decided in 2009 that the case concerned individuals and had to be considered by the court, \u201ctaking into account people\u2019s honor and self-respect, as well as the feelings of belonging to a nation, in the framework of constitutional provisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u015ei\u015fli court then re-assessed the file and decided Pamuk should pay compensation to the complainants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe right of individuals to open compensation cases was finalized. This decision is a precedent [for other cases],\u201d legal expert Ersan \u015een said, adding that the lapse of time for filing a complaint on this and other related cases had extended from one to eight years through this decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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