There has been much made of the trial of Orhan Pamuk, the writer facing prosecution in Turkey for having talked about the killing of Kurds in Turkey’s south-east, and the 1915 massacres of Armenians.

Significant as this is, it is worth bearing in mind that Pamuk is only one of more than 60 writers and publishers facing similar charges in Turkey.

One of these writers is Zulkuf Kisanak who, the BBC reports, has been fined 3,000 lira (£1,300) over his book Lost Villages, which describes the forced evacuation of thousands of villages by the Turkish military in the mainly Kurdish south-east.

Kisanak was initially given five months in jail. This sentence was reduced to a fine by an Istanbul court.

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