"Safak: Dutch and French Interventions will Harm All Attempts to Build Dialogue
Thursday , 05 October 2006
* Freedom of expression in Turkey, freedom of expression in Holland
View: Elif SAFAK, Turkish Daily News
October 2006
These days Turkey is busily discussing Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code. While the major party in opposition disappointingly resists any attempts to change this law and the government tries to navigate a nifty solution that will ideally satisfy both the voters and the EU top officials, Turkey's columnists left and right are industriously probing the implications of the article and making suggestions as to what to replace it with. Although the number of people complaining about the harmful effects of Article 301 has visibly increased, among the cultural, political and military elite, there are also those who claim that this article needs to be left intact to discipline and penalize any potential “traitors.”"
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