"Yalcin Dogan: The EU and 'insulting Turkishness'
Noam Chomsky and Joost Lagendijk. The first is a world class thinker and critic of modern governmental systems. The other is the co-head of the Turkey-Europe Parliamentary Commission. But why do I mention them together? Because the number of court cases clearly has not satisfied Turks these days: these two non-Turks are also being tried for 'insulting Turkishness' based on the Turkish Penal Code's 301st article. If there is any one source for the judgement among Europeans that the Turks 'can never be European,' it lies in this 301st article. "
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