Orhan Pamuk faces prison in Turkey

Turkish author, Orhan Pamuk, is currently being charged with insulting the Turkish Republic with statements published in a Swiss newspaper on February 6, 2005. Referring to the killings of thousands of Armenians between 1915-1917 and Kurdish Separatists since 1984, Pamuk is quoted as saying, "thirty thousand Kurds and a million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it."

International PEN, the worldwide association of writers promoting cooperation and freedom of expression, is urging that readers write Turkish leaders to protest Orhan Pamuk's upcoming trial on December 16.

International PEN on Orhan Pamuk's imprisonment and what readers can do.