The controversial trial of award-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk, accused of "public denigration of Turkishness", will put Turkish commitments to liberty of expression under the microscope.
A Turkish public prosecutor brought criminal charges against Mr Pamuk after an interview in Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger in February, in which the author said "30,000 Kurds and one million Ottoman Armenians were killed in Turkey and no-one dares talk about it."
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