{"id":104,"date":"2020-01-13T10:29:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T15:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/literature-vs-law\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2020-04-21T14:13:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T19:13:27","slug":"two-turkish-novelists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/literature-vs-law\/home\/two-turkish-novelists\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Turkish Novelists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2005-2006, two novelists were charged with the crime of insulting Turkishness by making references to the Armenian Genocide, a campaign of deportation and mass killing perpetrated against Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The novelists faced the possibility of imprisonment because of the accusation. &nbsp;One of the writers, Elif Shafak, was eventually acquitted, as her charges were based on the words of a fictional character in her novel&nbsp;<em>The Bastard of Istanbul<\/em>. Orhan Pamuk, the other author, had been charged based on comments from an interview. He was ordered to pay about $4,000 to settle his case in 2011.&nbsp;<em>The Red-Haired Woman&nbsp;<\/em>is the latest novel by the Nobel Prize winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Elif Shafak. The&nbsp;<em>bastard of Istanbul<\/em>. London: Penguin, 2007.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] In 2005-2006, two novelists were charged with the crime of insulting Turkishness by making references to the Armenian Genocide, a campaign of deportation and mass killing perpetrated against Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The novelists faced the possibility of imprisonment because of the accusation. &nbsp;One of the writers, Elif [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":87,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-104","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/literature-vs-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/literature-vs-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/literature-vs-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/literature-vs-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/literature-vs-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/literature-vs-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/literature-vs-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions\/124"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/literature-vs-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/literature-vs-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}