(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 1 April 2002 CPJ press release: TURKEY: PUBLISHER CHARGED OVER U.S. REPORTER’S BOOK ON KURDS New York, April 1, 2002 – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about the criminal prosecution of a Turkish publisher charged with “separatist propaganda” in connection with an American journalist’s book […]
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 1 April 2002 CPJ press release:
TURKEY: PUBLISHER CHARGED OVER U.S. REPORTER’S BOOK ON KURDS
New York, April 1, 2002 – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about the criminal prosecution of a Turkish publisher charged with “separatist propaganda” in connection with an American journalist’s book about the Kurds.
The trial of Abdullah Keskin, head of the Istanbul-based Avesta publishing house, begins Wednesday morning, April 3, in an Istanbul State Security Court. Keskin has been charged with disseminating “separatist propaganda,” a crime under Article 8 of Turkey’s Anti-Terror Law, because of Avesta’s Turkish edition of After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?-My Encounters in Kurdistan, a book about the Kurds written by retired Washington Post correspondent Jonathan Randal. The state prosecutor’s indictment cited several passages from the book that contained references to “Kurdistan.”
To read the news alert and the full text of the indictment click on this link:
http://www.cpj.org/news/2002/Turkey01apr02na.html
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