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Turkey Insult Law 'may Be Dumped'


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Turkey's foreign minister has suggested that a controversial law

against insults to the state or its institutions could be changed.

 

Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk is currently being tried under the

law, while lawyers are also threatening to use it against a Dutch

legislator.

 

Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said: "There may be need for a new law."

 

"We're trying to make Turkey a country in which democracy and human

rights are as valid as in any EU country."

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4565466.stm

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