Orhan Pamuk : facing up to Turkey's past / by Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Filmakers library online

Language:

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-.

Pamuk, Orhan.

Turkey.

Genre:

Documentary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (20 minutes)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2008.

Language Note:

Turkish; English, subtitles in English.

System Details:

digital

data file

Summary:

Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's best-known modern novelist and winner of the Nobel prize in 2006, became a pariah overnight for speaking out about the Turkish role in the Armenian genocide. In February, 2005 he stated in an interview with a Swiss newspaper, "Thirty thousand Kurds, and a million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody dares to talk about it." After that, Pamuk's books were banned, there were riots, and threats were made on his life. He was even forced to leave the country for a time. Filmed after he returned to his native city of Istanbul, he avows his passionate attachment to his country; at the same time, he insists the nation should know the truth about its history, and that there must be freedom of speech. Formerly known as "the sick man of Europe", Turkey suffers from a deep insecurity about its identity. The heavy-handed state response to Pamuk's remarks in a Swiss newspaper shows why the country faces so many hurdles when it seeks to join the European Union.

Notes:

Originally released as DVD.

Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).

Middle East Studies Association, 2007

OCLC:

747799290

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.