"Turkish Progress
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL EUROPE
January 30, 2008
Turkey's long struggle to build a liberal society is one of many baby steps forward and back. So it was Monday.
First, one backward. Atilla Yayla was convicted and given a 15-month suspended sentence yesterday for daring to suggest that the one-party secular regime imposed by 'this man' -- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk -- wasn't 'progressive.' For expressing himself, Mr. Yayla fell afoul of a little-known 1951 statute against insulting the long-dead founder of modern Turkey."
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