[lbo-talk] Re: Chomsky ref in NYT editorial?

[Seth Kulick]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:26:01AM -0500, Seth Kulick wrote:
> 
> >From today's Times:
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> 
>   Turkey on Trial, Part 1
> 
> Published: December 21, 2005
> 
> [...]
> 
> As a result, dozens of people in Turkey face charges like those against
> Mr. Pamuk. Last month a Turkish book publisher said he faced prosecution
> for a book published in 1997 that included allegations of human rights
> violations by the security forces during fighting with Kurdish rebels in
> the 1990's.
> [...]
> 
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> 
> Is this the book of Chomsky essays, resulting in the trial for which
> Chomsky went to Turkey a few years ago?  Is it coming up again, or is
> it some other book?

Nope - same publisher, different MIT prof.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/turkish.html

The Turkish translation of an MIT political scientist's book on the human
rights cost of U.S. weapons transfers to Turkey has produced unintended peril
for the young owner of an independent publishing house in Istanbul.

The book, "Spoils of War: The Human Cost of America's Arms Trade" (Free Press),
by John Tirman, executive director of MIT's Center for International Studies,
was first published in the United States in 1997 to widely favorable reviews.

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