September 22, 2006
Shafak acquitted....
A court in Istanbul has acquitted the best-selling Turkish novelist, Elif Shafak, who had been accused of insulting Turkish national identity.
A protestor reacts in front of a poster of Turkish novelist Elif Shafak during a demonstration outside the court during Shafak's trial in Istanbul. A Turkish court has acquitted Shafak of charges of insulting the nation in a book about the massacres of Armenians during World War I, saving the government from a fresh embarrassment in its bid to join the European Union.(AFP/Mustafa Ozer)
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