New novel by Orhan Pamuk presented in MoscowAugust 30, 2009 - 21:42 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - On August 27-30, renowned Turkish writer and Noble Prize laureate Orhan Pamuk visited Moscow to present his new novel entitled "Museum of Innocence".The visit was organized under the aegis of Turkish Embassy in Russia and Turkish General Consulate in St. Petersbutrg. Within presentation frameworks, the Institute of Asian and African countries organized a press conference and a lecture Orhan Pamuik currently resides in Germany where he found a shelter after nationalists' threats and the assassination of Armenian-Turkish "Agos" newspaper's Editor-in-Chief Hrant Dink. In a 2006 interview with a Swiss newspaper, Pamuk used the word Genocide to characterize the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians and 30 thousand Kurds in Turkey. Azerbaijani authorities report that they have already resettled 3,000 people in the Nagorno-Karabakh town of Stepanakert. On June 10, Azerbaijani President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will leave for Turkey on a working visit. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow on April 22 to hold talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. Partner news |