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(回答先: 仏下院：アルメニア人虐殺の史実否定に罰則 法案可決(毎日） 投稿者 kamenoko 日時 2006 年 10 月 13 日 20:09:01)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061013/wl_afp/franceturkeyarmenia_061013192541
Nobel winner denounces French genocide bill
Fri Oct 13, 3:25 PM ET
ANKARA (AFP) - Dissident Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Literature Prize, denounced a French bill that would make it a crime to deny Turks commited genocide against Armenians, saying it flouted France's "tradition of liberal and critical thinking."
"What the French did is wrong," Pamuk, better known for criticizing his own government, told the NTV television from New York, a day after the bill was voted in the lower house of the French parliament, infuriating Ankara.
"France has a very old tradition of liberal and critical thinking and I myself was influenced by it and learned much from it.
"But the decision they made constitutes a prohibition. It does not suit the French tradition of liberalism," he said.
The bill, which still needs the approval of the Senate and the president to take effect, foresees up to one year in jail and a heavy fine for anyone who denies that the World War I massacres of Armenians under Ottoman rule were genocide, a label Ankara fiercely rejects.
The 54-year-old Pamuk himself stood trial in Turkey this year for contesting the official line on the massacres under an infamous provision for "insulting Turkishness," which Ankara is under
European Union pressure to amend.
The trial was dropped on a technicality in January, but won Pamuk the reputation of a "traitor" among Turkish nationalists.
His Nobel award, announced shortly after the French vote on Thursday, was greeted with mixed reactions at home.
The government was among the many who hailed the first Turk to win a Nobel prize, but skeptics questioned whether Pamuk was rewarded for his writing or the political dissidence that has often embarrassed his country in the West.
Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc and several newspaper columnists had called on the writer to speak out against the French bill if he was an earnest campaigner for free speech.
Pamuk, a staunch advocate of Turkey's bid to join the European Union, urged his compatriots not to "blow the issue out of proportion" in their reactions to France.
"Don't burn the duvet for a flea," he said, using a Turkish proverb.
Commenting on the mixed reaction to his award, Pamuk said: "There was never a Nobel literature prize that was not met with any (negative) reactions... I'm not angry with anyone. People are free to think what they like."
"These debates will one day end but the fact will remain that Turkey has won a Nobel prize," he said. "I'm very honored and proud to have brought this award to my country."
Pamuk first drew the ire of the state in the mid-1990s when he denounced the treatment of the Kurdish minority as the army waged a heavy-handed campaign to suppress a bloody separatist insurgency in the southeast.
The state extended an olive branch in 1998, offering him the accolade of "State Artist," but Pamuk declined.
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