Abdullah Gul: I support the idea of Article 301 to change
Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Wednesday in Strasbourg that there were problems with a contentious law that makes it a crime to insult Turkish identity and it needed to be changed.
Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk and slain ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink were prosecuted under the law, which the EU wants Turkey to scrap. Article 301 has been used to prosecute journalists, writers and academics.
"I support the idea of Article 301 to change," Gul told journalists at the Council of Europe, the Associated Press reports.
Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk and slain ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink were prosecuted under the law, which the EU wants Turkey to scrap. Article 301 has been used to prosecute journalists, writers and academics.
"I support the idea of Article 301 to change," Gul told journalists at the Council of Europe, the Associated Press reports.
