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Turkish writers watch their backs

March 1st, 2007 by

At a recent dinner party on the shores of the Bosporus, the bookish chatter among the Turkish writers and academics present took a sudden grim turn: Are you under police protection yet?

“We were all comparing notes about which of us had only one bodyguard and which of us had two, and we joked a little about being in competition with each other over this,” said journalist and novelist Perihan Magden, who was among those placed under police protection after threats by ultranationalists. “It was comical, but also very tragic.”

In the wake of the January assassination in Istanbul of prominent ethnic Armenian editor Hrant Dink, Turkey’s intellectual community is feeling under siege to a degree not experienced in decades. [Read More]

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