2 november 2006, 14:25
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Re: Freedom of speech: The famous Article 301 of the Turkish penal code (TCK)
"Baba Bey" < [email protected]> wrote in message
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> Article 301 of the Turkish penal code (Türk Ceza Kanunu = TCK)
> took effect on 1 June 2005. Some not much informed circles say
> that it is a controversial article, which IMO is not true.
>
> Article 301 states the following:
> "
> a ) A person who publicly denigrates Turkishness (= Turkish identity,
> Turkish nation),
> the Republic or the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, shall be punishable
> by imprisonment of between six months and three years.
>
> b ) A person who publicly denigrates the Government of the Republic of
> Turkey,
> the judicial institutions of the State, the military or security
> organizations shall be
> punishable by imprisonment of between six months and two years.
>
> c) In cases where denigration of Turkishness is committed by a Turkish
> citizen
> in another country the punishment shall be increased by one third.
>
> d) Expressions of thought intended to criticize shall not constitute a
> crime."
>
> Exactly the same cases are covered also in the laws of other countries,
> for example in Germany "Volksverhetzung" article etc.:
> http://bundesrecht.juris.de/stgb/BJN...028206377.html
> http://www.lehrer-online.de/dyn/bin/...ner_organe.pdf
> The punishment in Germany is even harder than in Turkey. For example
> for the first case above it can go up to 5 years imprisonment.
>
> Why should it be "controversial" if the same law is also in other
> countries' penal code?
>
> It is BS what some uninformed people are asking for or when
> some others even do unresponsible propaganda with this.
>
>
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> BTW, this is my own personal theory about "Free Speech" etc.:
>
> ####
> The Theory about "Free Speech" Bla Bla and "Human Rights" Bla Bla
>
> The call for "free spech" and "human rights" bla bla is
> a tool of the war mongerers who want to destabilize a
> nation to steal its natural resources like oil and gas, gold,
> silver, copper, borium and other valuable materials, or
> to force that country to buy more arms from them, or
> to force the weak and poor countries to do what Big Brother wants.
>
> It's the way how the US and their bulldog CIA threatens
> the weak and the poor nations on this earth.
>
> The concept of free speech is mostly abused by those who
> demand it from others, but whereas in their own country they
> long ago eliminated free speech with mighty laws.
>
> Free speech is mostly abused by the war mongerers for propaganda,
> lies, hate, discrimination, racism, fascism, crime and ethnic wars
> to divide a nation, ie. for applying "divide and rule".
> That's the tool of the imperialistic countries like the US and UK.
> Even, once respected organizations like AI have become lackeys
> of them as they get paid for such a "desired service at the right time"...
>
> Russia and some other countries in the Caucasus recently have closed
> and banned more than 100 foreign so called "human rights" organizations.
> Well done Russia! We all know what's the intention of these enemies is...
>
> RFE/RL is a worldwide propaganda radio station financed,
> operated and fed by the CIA.
>
> ######
>
> And, I don't share the views of some "human rights" organizations
> who call for "more" "free speech" on the net (Internet, Usenet),
> because IMO it simply gets brutally misused for propaganda as
> we can witness each day what for example the Greek and the Armenian
> propagandists do with their countless Anti-Turkish hate and lie postings
> to countless newsgroups each day.
> These HR organizations are far from reality, they live in an idealized
> dreamland, but the reality is much brutal.
> The solution would be to have more clear and fair laws,
> yes, we need MORE (international) laws to regulate free speech!
>
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