Beslutningen om at bringe Orhan Pamuk for retten for at have bagtalt Den Tyrkiske Republik, fordi han havde talt kritisk om folkemordet på armenierne og behandlingen af det kurdiske mindretal, er yderst foruroligende.
The decision to press charges against Orhan Pamuk on grounds of having libelled the Turkish Republic because he had spoken critically of the Armenian genocide and the treatment of the Kurdish minority is deeply worrying.