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    CHANGES - FINALLY ADOPTED

    Hayots Ashkhar Daily
    Published on May 01, 2008
    Armenia

    Early in the morning yesterday, the Parliament of Turkey adopted the
    amendment to Article 301 of the Criminal Code, with a vote of 250 for
    and 65 against. Only the members of the ruling party voted in favor
    of the amendment which will enter into force after being ratified by
    the President.

    On April 29, the National Assembly held discussions till late at night,
    over introducing an amendment to Article 301 envisaging punishment for
    "insulting the Turkish identity". Hundreds of journalists and writers,
    including Hrant Dink, Editor of "Agos" newspaper, and Orhan Pamouk,
    laureate of Nobel Prize in literature, have been persecuted under
    this article.

    The nationalistic parliamentary opposition was against the amendment
    which criminalizes the insult to the Turkish state vs. the "Turkish
    identity". Any criminal case under this article will be instituted
    only by the permission of the Minister of Justice, and the maximum
    degree of punishment will be reduced from 3 to 2 years of imprisonment.
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