"Turkey Drops Charges Against Shafak in Key EU Trial
By Ayla Jean Yackley
Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Turkish prosecutors dropped charges against novelist Elif Shafak, on the first day of her trial for denigrating the national identity in a case monitored by the European Union as a benchmark for Turkey's human rights record.
The Istanbul court threw out the case, brought under article 301 of Turkey's penal code, after the judge and prosecutor said Shafak had not ``insulted Turkishness'' in a novel describing the alleged genocide of Armenians by Turks in 1915."
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