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    Pan Armenian News

    TURKEY TO CANCEL CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION
    CLAIMS


    08.07.2005 03:16

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos
    Haraszti, today praised the Turkish authorities for introducing important
    changes to the new Penal Code. Relating to Article 305 on "offences against
    fundamental national interests", the Representative noted with satisfaction
    that two examples in the explanatory "Reasoning Document" - making it a
    crime to demand the withdrawal of Turkish troops from Cyprus or to claim
    that Armenians were exposed to genocide - have been removed. To note, he
    revised Turkish Penal Code was finally approved by parliament on Wednesday,
    29 June.
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