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RKS TURKISH LITERATURE: Insult Islam: You Die (Orhan Pamuk)

There was, for example, the poet Nurettin, who admired all things European but took little interest in politics until the day a radical Islamist news paper unearthed something he’d written years earlier-an essay on art and religion-and distorted it to charge that he’d insulted our faith”; afraid of looking frightened, Nurettin dusted off his oldContinue reading “RKS TURKISH LITERATURE: Insult Islam: You Die (Orhan Pamuk)”

RKS TURKISH LITERATURE: Turkish “Religious School” Students Wouldn’t Hesitate to Chop You to Pieces for “Offending” Islam (Orhan Pamuk)

“Those religious high school boys you saw in the cells today have your face permanently etched in their memories. They’ll throw bombs at anyone and anything; they don’t care as long as they are heard. No one who’s even slightly westernized can breathe free in this country unless they have a secular army protecting them,Continue reading “RKS TURKISH LITERATURE: Turkish “Religious School” Students Wouldn’t Hesitate to Chop You to Pieces for “Offending” Islam (Orhan Pamuk)”

RKS TURKISH LITERATURE: Turkish “Religious School” Students Berate Europe (Orhan Pamuk)

But now, no one could hear anything above the booing and catcalls and angry whistles from the religious school boys. Despite the guilty, fearful silence at the front of the auditorium, few could hear what Funda Eser was saying that when the angry girl tore the scarf off her head, she was not just makingContinue reading “RKS TURKISH LITERATURE: Turkish “Religious School” Students Berate Europe (Orhan Pamuk)”

RKS TURKISH LITERATURE: The One by One Islamist Clean Up in Turkey (Orhan Pamuk)

The Islamists have embarked in a clean up operation. They’re taking care of us one by one. If you want to save your skin. I would advise you to increase your faith in God at the earliest opportunity. It won’t be long. I fear, before a moderate belief in God will be insufficient to saveContinue reading “RKS TURKISH LITERATURE: The One by One Islamist Clean Up in Turkey (Orhan Pamuk)”