Pamuk Cancels Trip to Germany
February 1st, 2007 by
Orhan Pamuk of Turkey, the 2006 Nobel laureate in literature, has canceled a trip to Germany, but his publisher declined to confirm a newspaper report that Mr. Pamuk feared he might be assassinated, Agence France-Press reported yesterday. The newspaper Kölner Stadt- Anzeiger said Mr. Pamuk believed he might be killed, as was Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor gunned down in Istanbul on Jan. 19. Like Mr. Pamuk he had challenged the official Turkish version of the 1915 Armenian genocide. Mr. Pamuk’s German publisher, Hanser, gave no reason for the cancellation of his visit, which was to have taken him to the Free University in Berlin for an honorary doctorate before lectures in Hamburg, Cologne and Munich. A spokesman for the German interior ministry said the government had no information on any threat to Mr. Pamuk.
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