"Author faces jail for saying hero dressed as woman
From Suna Erdem in Istanbul
THE author of this summer’s Turkish bestseller is to stand trial for allegedly insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the country’s revered founding father, in her popular revisionist biography of Latife, his wife.
The case is the latest in a series of high-profile lawsuits initiated against writers and intellectuals that has brought attention to the shortcomings of the supposedly reformed Turkish legal system with regard to freedom of expression in the European Union candidate country."
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