Turkish Intellectuals Between Democracy and Nationalism

by conneticutkati | September 25, 2006 at 10:25 am
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Turkish novelist Elif Shafak was taken to court on charges of "insulting Turkishness." It's a part of the Turkish penal code often used to go after intellectuals. But do the country's politicians have the courage to change it?

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