Article 301 Strikes Again: Jail Term for Writer
Writer Murat Coskun is in prison for “provoking hostility among people” with his book titled “Acinin Dili Kadin” (Woman, Language of Pain), which was published by Peri Publishing in January 2002. He was sentenced to one year fifteen days…
Coskun and representative of the publishing company Ahmet Önal have… been sued under article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code… It is claimed, says publisher Önal, that the 128 page long book has a passage where the members of the Turkish Armed Forces are called “vultures” and another passage where the propaganda of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) is made through PKK militant Zeynep Kinaci, whose code name is given as Zilan….
Önal asked how Turkey can be the honor guest of the Frankfurt Book Fair [this year], when it arrest writers and launches investigations against books. (click here)
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