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| Court Slams Turkey for Violating Paper's Freedom of Expression |
| 2013-10-09 |
| [An Nahar] Turkey violated national newspaper Cumhuriyet's freedom of expression when it prevented further publication of an interview given by the current President Abdullah Gul to Britannia's The Guardian in 1995, the European rights court ruled Tuesday. In April 2007, in the run-up to presidential elections, Cumhuriyet had reproduced a quote from the interview that Gul, a candidate in the elections, had given to The Guardian 12 years earlier. The interview was used as the basis for an article entitled "Turkish Islamists aim for power" amid heated debates in the majority Mohammedan but staunchly secular nation about Islamic values. |
| Posted by:Fred |