"The EU’s safe guide on insulting Turkey
Author: Andy Dabilis
26 May 2008 - Issue : 783
It’s too late for Hrant Dink, the brave Armenian-Turkish newspaperman who was murdered in 2007, not long after being convicted of violating Turkey’s medieval Article 301 which made it a crime to “insult Turkishness,” which is pretty hard to do when so much of your history is built on bayoneting babies and your national sport is invasion. The European Union has weakly requested that Turkey scrap Article 301 as one requirement to become a member of the European Union, where it is okay to insult all nationalities, allowed in real democracies. With Dink’s murder safely behind them, and knowing the economic benefits of being in the EU are looming, Turkey has amended its law so that it’s no longer a crime to insult Turkishness. You just can’t insult the Turkish nation, which means you can only insult foreigners there apparently."
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