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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9232

14 July 2006
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/turkey
Olli Rehn expresses concern about freedom of expression

Brussels, 13/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday, Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said he was “disappointed” by the decision of the Court of Cassation in Turkey to confirm the six-month suspended prison sentence for Hrant Dink, an Armenian journalist from Turkey, accused of insulting “Turkishness”. Mr Dink, Director of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper, Agos, in Istanbul, will go to prison if condemned for similar offences within the next five years. He had been...

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