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Former Croatian President Stjepan Mesic has turned down an offer to be made an Honorary Citizen of Sarajevo - after the Bosnian capital rescinded an earlier decision to award the Turkish Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk.

The University of Crete's Department of Philology will award an honorary doctorate to the 65-year-old Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, it was reported on Saturday.

University officials said they made the decision in order to honor Pamuk - winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 2006 - whom they described as a world-renowned author and a champion of democracy and human rights.

'The Red-Haired Woman' by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Ekin Oklap (Faber & Faber, 272 pages, £17)

Nobel laureate writer Orhan Pamuk has said he is convinced that the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen and members of his network were behind Turkey's failed July 2016 coup attempt.

A 50-year-old woman has succeeded to make her paralyzed dog walk again with her husband's medicines in the Black Sea province of Zonguldak, daily Habertürk has reported.

The Orhan Kemal Novel Award has been one of the most - perhaps the most - prestigious literary awards in Turkey since it was established by the family of the social-realist novelist after his passing in 1970. For example, the star of Turkey's only Nobel literature laureate, Orhan Pamuk, who won in 2006, started to rise after he received the Orhan Kemal Award in 1983.

'Motherland Hotel' by Yusuf Atılgan, translated by Fred Stark (City Lights, 152 pages, $15.95)

According to NRC Handelsblad the Netherlands are faced with a real diplomatic headache: Turkish military personnel that serve in various positions in Europe, mostly at NATO, seek asylum on a massive scale, with the Netherlands being among the countries of choice. The Turkish personnel are afraid that their government will arrest them as “Gulenists” as soon as they land on Turkish soil.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Culture and Information Vladan Vukosavljevic and Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk met at the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts on Monday to discuss an initiative for Belgrade to next year host an international conference of eminent writers from around the world.

About 40 prominent academics and authors from around the world are urging Turkey's government to end what they say is the persecution of the country's own writers and professors voicing a differing point of view.