Trial of Turkey's best known novelist halted
The presiding judge in the trial of Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s best-known novelist, ordered a halt in the trial shortly after it opened today, citing questions over whether a new law making it a crime to insult the national identity could be applied to the novelist’s case.
Pamuk was facing trial in Istanbul for insulting Turkishness but his lawyers argued that the comments that he made that led to the trial predated the law by several months.
