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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Turkey under fire over laws banning insults to "Turkishness"

"Turkey under fire over laws banning insults to 'Turkishness'

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA – 41 minutes ago

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — 'Happy is he who says: 'I am a Turk.''

Turkey's motto is on display in schools, hospitals and military barracks. Schoolchildren recite it like the Pledge of Allegiance. It covers hillsides in southeast Turkey, where the military is fighting Kurdish separatists."

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