Author acquitted
Saturday 02 December 1995 00:02 GMT
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Author acquitted
Istanbul - A Turkish security court acquitted Yasar Kemal, one of the country's best-known authors, who was charged with "provoking hatred and enmity" in an article for Der Spiegel magazine in Germany. In it he accused the authorities of "a campaign of lies" to hide systematic oppression, particularly of the Kurds. Reuter
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