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Freedom of insult or freedom of speech? A reply to critics about the case of the Turkish pianist Fazil Say

Last Modified:  28 May 2013 02:47  GMT


I know that I am walking a very fine line here but I will and I have to. Recently Fazil Say, the Turkish pianist, faced a sentence of up to one and a half years in prison for the crime of 'openly insulting the sacred values of a certain fraction of the general public'. By Sinem Tezyapar





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