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COE: Council of Europe Secretary General: new concerns about freedom of expression in Turkey

/noticias.info/ Strasbourg, 19.06.2008 – “Recent amendments to the controversial Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code had raised hopes that the attitude of the Turkish authorities towards freedom of expression in Turkey had changed.

These hopes have now been overshadowed by reports of three court cases in which a publisher, a singer and a children’s choir have been sentenced or charged with offences related to freedom of expression. As a friend of Turkey, I should like to remind the authorities that respect for freedom of expression is essential in a real democracy. It is also a right guaranteed by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which Turkey signed when it joined the Council of Europe in 1950.” notas_de_prensa_archivo