Turkey will amend Article 301?

The Guardian is reporting, via an Associated Press story, that the Turkish foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, has verbally assued the Council of Europe's Thomas Hammarberg, its human rights commissioner, that article 301--under which the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, inter alii, had been charged with 'insulting the Turkish state' and 'inciting hatred of religion' et cetera--will be changed. 

Dr Hammarberg noted that Turkey has more than one option available to  deal with this illiberal restriction on the right of free expression: "abolishing the article, amending it or attaching an explanatory note for prosecutors about its real intent would be possible options to correct it", he said.

We shall see.