Article 301 (Turkish Penal Code)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Article 301 is a controversial article of the Turkish Penal Code making it illegal to insult Turkey, the Turkish ethnicity, or Turkish government institutions. It took effect on June 1, 2005, and was introduced as part of a package of penal-law reform in the process preceding the opening of negotiations for Turkish membership of the European Union (EU), in order to bring Turkey up to the Union standards. The original version of the article made it a crime to "insult Turkishness"; on April 30, 2008, the article was amended to change "Turkishness" into "the Turkish nation." Since this article became law, charges have been brought in more than 60 cases, some of which are high-profile. The Great Jurists Union (Turkish: B y k Hukuk ular Birliği) headed by Kemal Kerin siz, a Turkish lawyer, is "behind nearly all of Article 301 trials." Kerin siz himself is responsible for forty of the trials, including the high-profile ones.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 5512804332
• ISBN13: 9785512804339
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Book on Demand Ltd.
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"