Nobel Prize author: Iraq war 'major disaster' for West

War In Iraq
By: AKI on: 11.09.2007 [05:21 ] (107 reads)

Turkish author Orhan Pamuk says prestige of Western civilisation ruined by 'horrors and injustice' of war.

TURIN, Italy - The Iraqi war was a disaster for the US and its allies and had undermined support for democracy and secularism in the Islamic world, Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk told Adnkronos International (AKI).

On a visit to Italy, Pamuk said the prestige of Western civilisation had been ruined by the 'horrors and injustice' of the war and it had poisoned relations between the Arab world and the US and its European allies.

"I think it is one of the major disasters in the last three or four decades, this war in Iraq. It's destroyed a peaceful approach in the Middle East towards democracy, towards human rights, western values and women's liberation," Pamuk told AKI.

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