login
login

Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9115

24 January 2006
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/turkey
Commission welcomes decision to drop charges against novelist Orhan Pamuk but calls for greater freedom of speech

Brussels, 23/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has welcomed the decision by the Sisli Court in Istanbul (Turkey) to drop the charges against novelist Orhan Pamuk for allegedly insulting Turkish national identity when he said in an interview with a Swiss newspaper that nobody dared mention the genocide of Armenians ninety years ago and the death of 30,000 Kurds over the past two decades. The Turkish justice minister is reported to have ruled that the allegations against Orhan...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT