"Turkey to push through free speech reform
Published: Monday, 18 February, 2008, 01:44 AM Doha Time
ISTANBUL: Turkey's government is determined to push through a long-awaited reform on freedom of expression, sought by the European Union, and will increase broadcasting in Kurdish, the prime minister said yesterday.
The EU, which Turkey wants to join, has long called for reform of article 301 of the penal code, which makes it a crime to "insult Turkishness" and has been used against dozens of writers including Nobel Literature Laureate Orhan Pamuk."
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