ORHAN PAMUK

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That this House recognises the extraordinary quality of the writing of the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk; applauds his courage in speaking about the killing of a million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds in the early part of the twentieth century; is appalled that this has led to his prosecution for the public denigration of Turkish identity; and hopes and expects that commonsense and justice will prevail at his trial set for December 2005.