Novelist on trial as Turkey defies calls to scrap law

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Series Details 21.9.06
Publication Date 21/09/2006
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Turkey's most celebrated woman novelist, Elif Shafak, goes on trial 21 September 2006 charged with 'insulting Turkishness', as the Turkish government refuses to bow to domestic and international pressure to abolish the law that allows writers to be prosecuted. In the event the prosecution dropped its case on the 21 September 2006

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Wikipedia: Article 301 (Turkish penal code) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_301_(Turkish_penal_code)
BBC News, 21.9.06: Major Turkish novelist on trial http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5366048.stm
BBC News, 21.9.06: Top novelist acquitted in Turkey http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5366446.stm
BBC News, 22.9.06: Writer's trial a key moment for Turkey http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5369182.stm
BBC News, 22.9.06: Turks welcome Shafak's acquittal http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5370202.stm

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