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ORHAN PAMUK HAS PUBLISHED HIS NEW NOVEL
Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature Orhan Pamuk has published another book called The Museum of Innocence. The novel containing 592 pages, tells about the love of a rich man towards the sunset of modern Istanbul. The author is working at the English version of the book at the moment and german-speaking readers will have the novel in September. Pamuk had to leave his apartement in Istanbul because of eternal threats from Turkish society and government and went to live in the USA. Note that Pamuks books admitting Armenian Genocide and representing the facts of Qurdish peoples massacre were burnt in the streets of Istanbul. Moreover, Turkish government had opened a court trial against Pamuk accusing him of hurting Turkish peoples feelings. By the way, Orhan Pamuks books have been translated in more than 40 languages.
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Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature Orhan Pamuk has published another book called The Museum of Innocence. The novel containing 592 pages, tells about the love of a rich man towards the sunset ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Knowledge Day.
- 570 Signature of the Treaty between Armenia and the Byzantine Empire.
- 1387 Tamerlane's forces surround and occupy Fort Van (Western Armenia).
- 1850 The "Ararat" weekly is first published in Tbilissi (Georgia). Gabriel Patkanyan is the publisher.
- 1860 Creation of the "National Union" with the active participation of Meekayel Nalbandyan in Constantinople.
- 1860 The Armenian Benevolent Union is created.
- 1861 G.Yeranyan, N.Tashtchyan and T.Tshookhadjiyan publish the semi-annual "Armenian Lyre" periodical devoted to music.
- 1868 Opening of the Yerevan Gymnasium.
- 1868 Birth in Elizabetpol (Gandzak) of Melik Melikyan (Bolshevik politician). He was murdered in Baku in 1918.
- 1886 Minas Cheraz opens the Central College at Kalatia (Constantinople).
- 1894 The centenary of Armenian journalism is celebrated.
- 1920 The First Assembly of Eastern Peoples opens in Baku with Armenian participation.
- 1939 Start of the Second World War.
- 1958 The Agriculture and Agrochemistry Research Institute is founded within Armenia's Ministry of Agriculture.
- 1966 Continuing an unbroken practice since the thirties, Soviet Armenia sends petitions to the central authorities in Moscow to return Artsakh to Armenia. These petitions eventually are accompanied by mass protests in Artsakh, which lead to a crackdown by the Communist authorities.
- 1997 Arkady Ghukasyan (former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Artsakh) is elected President of Artsakh.
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