Or is he on trial because he's an author?

Every year Georgetown makes its incoming freshman read a book and then has the author come and chat with them about it. Usually it's a task of some drudgery for students who are unwilling to interrupt the fun of orientation week for such a thing as schoolwork. Our author was Orhan Pamuk, author of My Name Is Red. It turns out that after meeting and chatting with Georgetown students, three years have passed and he's on trial in Turkey! Amy commented, "What did he do? What did he do? Oh, or do they just not like that he's an author?" Turns out, that's pretty much it. Really Turkey? I can't decide what you want, to be totally stand-offish or to court the EU. Stop being so high-maintenance and mixed-signals and let your authors out of jail.