Brussels, 21/09/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 21 September, Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn welcomed the dismissal, by an Istanbul court, of charges against novelist Elif Shafak. Ms Shafak had been accused, under the terms of Article 301 of the Penal Code, of denigrating Turkish identity in a novel about the massacres of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire. Mr Rehn also called on Turkish authorities to amend or repeal Article 301 which continues to be used to restrict freedom of expression in...