"Turkey: Parliament Approves 'Cosmetic' Free-Speech Reform
By Jeremy Bransten
Turkey -- Dink, Hrant, a Turkish-Armenian journalist at his office in Istanbul, after an Istanbul court on Friday sentenced him to a six-month suspended sentence for
Turkey's parliament has voted to amend Article 301, a controversial law that limited free speech by permitting the prosecution of people for 'insulting Turkishness.'
Under the changes, which must still be approved by the country’s president, insulting Turkishness would no longer be a crime, but insulting the Turkish nation could still land you in prison."
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