Politics: Will Turkey make any changes in Article 301 because of the prospect of the EU integration?Mentioning the Armenian Genocide, as well as the Genocides of the Pontiac Greeks, Assyrians, Kurds, and which is not less important, in the "disrespect" to the founder of the modern Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk are in one word described as "Insult to Turk April 10, 2008 The leading party of Turkey Justice and Development has come up with a suggestion to changing the 301 Article of the Turkish Penal Code, according to which those who are accused of "insult to Turkishness", are sentenced to a 3-year imprisonment. In the revised version of expression "insult to Turkishness" is changed into "insult to the Turkish Nation", and the maximum period of imprisonment is 2 years instead of 3, which gives the chance of changing the imprisonment with conditional release.  |
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