LIBRARY LIONS GALA HONORING ELIE WIESEL AND OPRAH WINFREY
Mr. Orhan Pamuk arrives for the Library Lions Gala at the New York Public Library in New York City on November 13, 2006. (UPI Photo/John Angelillo)
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Turkey warned of new actions if the French Senate approves a bill making it a crime to deny the Turkish army committed genocide against Armenians a century ago.
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The trial of 86 suspected coup plotters in Turkey was delayed for a while when demonstrators and journalists packed the courtroom, officials said.
The Turkish parliament had a late-night session to appease Europe by amending its controversial law that makes insulting "Turkishness" a crime, officials said.
The Turkish government says it will change a controversial law used to prosecute anyone who denigrates Turkish identity.
President Abdullah Gul told the Council of Europe Wednesday no one is in prison in Turkey for controversial speech.
Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk reportedly is in exile in the United States, living in fear for his life.
Turkish author Ipek Calislar was acquitted for allegedly insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, considered the founder of modern Turkey. The BBC reported that prosecutors claimed Calislar had insulted Ataturk in a biography of Ataturk's wife Latife, in which Ca
The French parliament's decision to make it a crime to deny that Armenians were victims of genocide by Turkey during World War I has deeply upset Turks.
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