"Turkish author says trial will test fiction’s role
EU closely watching case against novelist in freedom of speech fight
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Leading Turkish novelist Elif Shafak goes on trial next week in a case she views as a milestone for freedom of speech in Turkey because for the first time the words of fictional characters are being judged.
Shafak, a cosmopolitan feminist who writes in English and Turkish, is accused of “insulting Turkishness” in her new novel “The Bastard of Istanbul,” under controversial Article 301 of Turkey’s revised penal code."
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