ABDULLAH GUL: I SUPPORT THE IDEA OF ARTICLE 301 TO CHANGE

PanARMENIAN.Net
03.10.2007 17:27 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Wednesday in
Strasbourg that there were problems with a contentious law that makes
it a crime to insult Turkish identity and it needed to be changed.

Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk and slain ethnic Armenian
journalist Hrant Dink were prosecuted under the law, which the EU
wants Turkey to scrap.

Article 301 has been used to prosecute journalists, writers and
academics.

"I support the idea of Article 301 to change," Gul told journalists
at the Council of Europe, the Associated Press reports.