Comments on: Pamuk: “I Did Not Use the Word ‘Genocide’” http://www.orbis-quintus.net/?p=1964 abstractor of quintessence Sat, 18 May 2013 19:34:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Deniz http://www.orbis-quintus.net/?p=1964&cpage=1#comment-44373 Deniz Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:33:07 +0000 http://orbis-quintus.net/blog/?p=1964#comment-44373 Turkey is changing at breakneck speed; some 80,000 pages of law is in the process of being implemented in order for the country to join the EU.

Orhan Pamuk understands this and more. He goes on record as saying that the ruckus his comments caused was not unexpected, and that he feels no bitterness towards those who have hated him for his openness.

What is unfolding before us is something that happens only once in a long while: a creative artist, using his leverage from the Western intelligentsia, is challenging an all-powerful governmental system. Because of his courageousness, he just might cause closed doors to open much sooner, and in so doing, singlehandedly alter the trajectory of a nation’s development.

]]> By: slickdpdx http://www.orbis-quintus.net/?p=1964&cpage=1#comment-43642 slickdpdx Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:38:03 +0000 http://orbis-quintus.net/blog/?p=1964#comment-43642 There’s no point in getting in trouble for what he didn’t say…he’s trimming the sails. What is shameful is the Turkish government showing such eagerness to silence a Turk who dared to speak. You’ve got to think that if they’ll take action like this under the spotlight of international attention, things must be far far worse for the average Erol, Hasad and Akasma. It demonstrates the truth of that aspect of his remarks. I believe the rest is a matter of historical record.

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