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Turkish Nobel laureate cancels Germany trip
2007-01-31
Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has cancelled a planned trip to Germany, his publisher said, but declined to confirm press reports that he feared his life was in danger. The Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper said Wednesday the trip had been called off for security reasons because the novelist believed he could be the victim of an attack after the murder on January 19 of ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in Istanbul. Dink is believed to have been killed because of remarks he made about massacres of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire. Pamuk has in the past been prosecuted and branded a traitor by nationalists for making similar remarks. He was due to have been awarded an honorary doctorate by Berlin's Free University on Friday before giving lectures in Hamburg, Cologne, Stuttgart and Munich. Pamuk's German publisher Hanser gave no reason for the cancellation of the trip.
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