Monday, January 8, 2007

Pamuk edits the Turkish newspaper Radikal for a day


The Guardian article calls Radikal, "a major Turkish newspaper." This CBC news article says, "While Radikal has a circulation of only about 30,000, it is a highly regarded political paper," and notes that its regular editor-in-chief Ismet Berkan had similar charges to Pamuk brought against him last year. The paper was devoted to free expression of artists and acknowledged a 1951 article denouncing the poet Nazim Hikmet. He offered himself as scapegoat for anything in the paper that the readers took offense to, and directed any praise to the regular staff of Radikal.

I wonder if he's going to get into trouble again?

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