PAMUK AWARDED MEDICIS LITERATURE PRIZE
Famous Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk was awarded Medicis famous French literature prize, Panarmenian.net reported.
The French have awarded the Prize to Orhan Pamuk for his «Snow» novel, of which Kars is the scene. The hero of the novel is a Turkish writer, who has returned to the fatherland after a 12-year exile and who finds himself in the center of political events developing in the small town.
Meanwhile, Pamuk will appear before an Istanbul court in December on indictment of “damaging Turkish statehood authority.” Earlier, Pamuk had stated in an interview with a Swiss newspaper that “one million Armenians and 30 thousand Kurds were killed in Turkey at the beginning of past century.” Under Turkish laws Pamuk may face imprisonment from 6 months to 3 years.
TURKISH SCHOLARS DISCUSS GENOCIDE WITH OVERFLOW CROWD
More than 800 people flocked to UCLA Sunday, where three prominent Turkish scholars challenged the official position of their country on the Armenian genocide at a historic conference titled "Three ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT WILL NOT MEET ERDOGAN IN DENMARK
Armenian President Robert Kocharian and Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan will not meet in Denmark, as the Armenian leader will not go to Denmark, Panarmenian.net reported. According to Turkish media, ...PAMUK AWARDED MEDICIS LITERATURE PRIZE
Famous Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk was awarded Medicis famous French literature prize, Panarmenian.net reported. The French have awarded the Prize to Orhan Pamuk for his «Snow» novel, of which Kars is ...
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- 1830 Birth of Rafael Patkanyan in New Nakhichevan (Rostov, Russia). He died in 1892.
- 1851 The Gabriel Tamamshyan Armenian theatre is created and named for its architect. It operated till October, 1874.
- 1877 The Mariamyan-Hovnanyan Girl's School opens in Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1881 Opening of the parish school of New Nakhichevan (Rostov, Russia).
- 1928 Inauguration of the Cattle-breeding Institute of the Transcaucasus in Yerevan.
- 2000 The French National Assembly recognizes the 1915 Genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
- 2000 Armenias request for admission to the Council of Europe in approved.
- 2000 The French Senate passes a resolution on the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
- 2001 Death of photographer Malak Karsh of Ottawa. He was the brother of Yusuf Karsh (portrait photographer), and was famous for his photograph of the Canadian Parliament on the Canadian one-dollar bill. He was born in 1915.
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