defamation


Investigation about “Veba Geceleri” (“Nights of Plague”) by Orhan Pamuk

An investigation was initiated about the latest novel of writer Orhan Pamuk, “Nights of Plague” with the allegation that it was “insulting Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Turkish Flag” and it was “inciting people to hatred.” When the file, which was given a nolle, returned from the Criminal Court of Peace, the prosecution re-started the investigation based on the same grounds