Nobel laureate Pamuk runs Turkish paper for a day

The Nobel Prize winning novelist Orhan Pamuk took over a Turkish newspaper for a day, and devoted Sunday’s front page to criticism of the oppression of artists in his native country.

Pamuk, whose trial last year on a charge of “insulting Turkishness” received international condemnation before it was dropped on a technicality, earned a degree in journalism but had never practiced the profession before becoming the one-day editor in chief at Radikal.

His cover story criticized the Turkish press and government for suppressing free expression.

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