‘DISINFORMATION ON ARTICLE 301 IS OF TURKISH ORIGIN’
By Cihan News Agency

Zaman, Turkey
Nov 6 2006

Turkish Minister of Justice Cemil Cicek has said that there was
disinformation in Turkey regarding the "notorious" Article 301 of
the Turkish Penal Code and it was of Turkish origin.

The controversial article has been used to try many journalists and
writers in court under criminal charges for "insulting Turkishness,"
generally for topics related to the ‘Kurdish question’ and an Armenian
genocide.

Cicek was speaking at the Turkish Journalist Federation’s general
assembly meeting in Ankara on Sunday.

He pointed out that most of the issues labeled as "incomplete"
in the EU’s Progress Report on Turkey, which are hindering Turkey,
were reported to the EU by some people in Turkey.