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    Turkish Court Repeals Ruling On Pro-Kurdish Paper Closure

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    March 31, 2012 - 13:07 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - A Turkish court ruling to suspend the publication
    of the pro-Kurdish Ozgur Gundem (Free Agenda) newspaper for an entire
    month has been repealed after lawyers for the paper appealed the
    decision, Today's Zaman reported.

    Last week, the Istanbul 14th Criminal Court ordered Ozgur Gundem
    suspend publishing the paper for a month, citing the "dissemination of
    propaganda for a terrorist organization" in its March 24 edition. The
    phrase terrorist organization refers to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers'
    Party (PKK).

    Earlier this week, Ozgur Gundem lawyers appealed the ruling. The same
    panel of judges then agreed to repeal the original ruling. The new
    decision was announced on Friday, March 30.

    Ozgur Gundem's predecessors have been shut down several times before
    and the newspaper has had to change names frequently.

    On Wednesday, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told journalists
    while on his way to Tehran from Seoul that he was against shutting
    down any organization, be it a political party or newspaper. He said
    individuals should be held responsible for violations of the law, not
    entire organizations. Erdogan said it was not only anti-democratic
    to shut down organizations, but also futile, as such agencies tend
    to simply re-open under a new name.

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