"Turkey's McCarthy moment?
By Jack Miles, JACK MILES is senior fellow with the Pacific Council on International Policy and the author of 'God: A Biography,' which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996.
TURKEY'S FINEST novelist, Orhan Pamuk, goes on trial today on the charge of 'insulting' his country. Article 301/1 of the Turkish Penal Code stipulates that anyone 'who explicitly insults being a Turk, the Republic or the Turkish Grand National Assembly, shall be imposed to a penalty of imprisonment for a term of six months to three years.' "
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