Nobel winner attacks Turkish government

Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk guest-edited yesterday's issue of the Turkish newspaper, Radikal, and devoted it to stories about the oppression of artists. The cover story criticised the Turkish press and government for stifling free expression. Pamuk, who won the 2006 Nobel prize for literature, was once tried by the government for "insulting Turkishness" after saying that "30,000 Kurds and one million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it." The case was dropped on a technicality. Though Radikal has a circulation of only about 30,000 it is highly regarded, and Its editor-in-chief, Ismet Berkan, faced similar charges to Pamuk's last year. (Via CBC News)