Turks acquitted for publishing Chomsky
A Turkish publisher, two editors and a translator have all been acquitted (via) of insulting Turkishness by translating and publishing Noam Chomsky’s book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.
The case against publisher Fatih Tas was brought under article 301 of the Turkish penal code, which Turkish officials have promised to work towards amending.
Also acquitted was author, Ipek Calislar, who had been accused of insulting modern Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, by writing that he had once fled disguised as a woman.
Article 301 has also been used against dozens of writers, journalists and and publishers and has been highlighted by the EU as contributing to a “climate of self-censorship in the country”.
Saturday 23 Dec 2006 | Paul | Turkey
