Author of Banned Book Is Acquitted
From Times Wire Reports
A court acquitted Turkish journalist Nadire Mater, who was charged with insulting the military in her banned book on the Kurdish rebel war. The case was seen as a test of Turkey’s pledge to improve its poor human rights record. Mater faced up to 12 years in prison if convicted. Unless the prosecutor appeals the verdict, the ban on “Mehmet’s Book,” which recounts the horrors and frustrations of recruits fighting Kurdish rebels, will be lifted in seven days.
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