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"'Terrorised' writers lament state's assault on free speech

Trial of Turkey's greatest living author is focusing attention on attempts to control public opinion

Ian Traynor in Istanbul
Friday December 16, 2005
The Guardian

Ertugrul Kurkcu has been hauled before the judges for saying the wrong thing so many times that he has almost lost count. 'Six or seven trials, always acquitted, but I did get a 10-month jail sentence from a military court for translating a Human Rights Watch report,' says the veteran leftwing Turkish dissident."

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