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Thursday, February 08, 2007

Group Seeks End to Law Against Insulting Turkey - New York Times

"Group Seeks End to Law Against Insulting Turkey

By SEBNEM ARSU
Published: February 8, 2007

ISTANBUL, Feb. 8 — A group of civic organizations today proposed changes to Article 301, a controversial section of the Turkish penal code that makes insulting Turkey or Turkishness a crime. The section has been used against intellectuals, journalists and writers like the Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk and the newspaper editor Hrant Dink, who was shot dead in an Istanbul street in January. "

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