Turkey Mulls Looser Freedom Of Speech Law

On 19 January 2007 the Turkish journalist Hrant Dink was shot dead by an ultranationalist in Istanbul. Many writers and journalists put the blame for this death squarely on Article 301 of Turkey's penal code. This article punishes what it terms "denigrating Turkishness" with sentences of up to four years in jail. Hrant Dink, who was of Armenian origin, had run into trouble with the law for articles about the 1915-17 massacres of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire.