"Editorial: Turkey should allow free speech
April 12th, 2007
CT Editorial Board
Yesterday, a parliamentary commission in Turkey approved a proposal that would allow for the country to block websites that are considered insulting to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern day Turkey. According to The Associated Press, it is illegal in Turkey to, 'talk of breaking up the state or to insult Ataturk, the revered founder of modern Turkey whose image graces every denomination of currency and whose portrait hangs in nearly all government offices.' "
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