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Sad loss of Harold Pinter too ....
Indeed - I learnt of this later this evening.
Yup ... Harold Pinter is a bit of a conversation stopper for Turks ..."The genocidal destruction of the Kurdish people in the south-east of Turkey, where 1,500 villages have been erased and two million people displaced..."
Harold Pinter 1994The playwright Michael Frayn said: "He did two really wonderful things politically. He went to Turkey and protested against the arrest of the writers there. It's a very difficult thing to do: it takes a lot of moral courage to actually go to somebody's country and give them a blasting for their policies. The other thing was his Nobel acceptance speech, which was remarkable and had a huge impact."In 1988, Harold Pinter accompanied Arthur Miller on a trip to study the plight of the Kurds trapped in the mountains that divide Turkey from Iraq.
The Kurds needed the solidarity of famous writers because the Turkish nationalist government in Ankara so hated their aspirations it banned the Kurdish language.
Pinter lived up to the high ideals by returning to Britain and writing Mountain Language, a short political play as relentless in its dissection of fanaticism and despair as Miller's The Crucible. Unbending guards hold prisoners from a nameless race in a concentration camp. A sergeant bellows at a woman inmate:
Your language is forbidden.
It is dead.
No one is allowed to speak your
language.
Your language no longer exists.
Any questions?
Sourced: Guardian
....and the link to Eartha Kitts passing?
