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Censorship in Turkey
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Freedom of press in Turkey is regulated by several laws, including the Article 301 which took effect in June 2005. Article 301 makes it a crime to insult "Turkishness". Since this Article became law, charges have been brought in more than 60 cases, some of which are high-profile.[1]
Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk was one of the famous writers to be censored under Article 301. Writer Perihan Mağden, a columnist for the newspaper Radikal, was tried and acquitted on July 27th 2006 for calling for opening the possibility of conscientious objection to mandatory military service in that country.
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- Further information: Multi-party period of Turkey
Prime minister Adnan Menderes instituted censorship laws after World War II.
Freedom of speech was heavily restricted after the 1980 military coup headed by General Kenan Evren.
Left-wing intellectual Aziz Nesin, who had attempted to publish in Turkey Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, was targeted along with Alevis, inlcuding Hasret Gültekin, a famous Kurdish bağlama saz player, in Sivas in July 1993. An arson led by Sunni extremists led to 36 deaths, although Aziz Nesin managed to survive.
On March 7 2007, Turkish courts imposed a ban on the popular video sharing website, YouTube.com [2]. Two days later they lifted this ban [3].
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