Banned Letters
Graphics, Kurds — Censeo @ June 25th, 2008
This news clipping refers to a mayor in southeast Turkey who went on trial for publishing a children’s storybook in Turkish and Kurdish: http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=9905
Opposition to the Kurdish minority continues, even in the form of censorship of the written word. Ray Bradbury, in the original novel “Fahrenheit 451″, presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic, and critical thought through reading is outlawed. The central character, Guy Montag, is employed as a “fireman” (which, in this future, means “book burner”). The number “451″ refers to the temperature (in Fahrenheit) at which a book or paper autoignites. A movie version of the novel was released in 1966, and it is anticipated that a second version will begin filming in 2008.
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