February 8, 2008
Professor Is Convicted for Insulting Ataturk
A professor of politics and political theory at Gazi University, in Ankara, Turkey, was convicted last week of insulting the memory of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish Republic, and received a 15-month suspended prison sentence.
The professor, Atilla Yayla, was charged following comments he made during a public panel discussion in November 2006. Mr. Yayla, who is spending a sabbatical year teaching at the University of Buckingham, in England, said he planned to
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