“Last February, Turkey’s most celebrated writer, Orhan Pamuk, told a Swiss newspaper that ‘thirty thousand Kurds and a million Armenians were killed in these lands and almost no one dares talk about it. Therefore, I do.’ This caused a furor within Turkey, with liberals defending Pamuk’s right to free speech and/or the critical importance of speaking out about this particular matter, and reactionaries branding Pamuk a traitor, burning his books, and issuing the anonymous death threats that have forced the writer to flee his country.”