TURKISH PRESIDENT SAYS CONTENTIOUS LAW ON INSULTING TURKISH IDENTITY NEEDS TO BE CHANGED
AP
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria
Oct 3 2007
STRASBOURG, France (AP) – Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Wednesday
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.