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    PanArmenian News
    March 5 2005

    OSCE CALLED ON TURKEY TO CEASE PERSECUTION FOR DISCUSSING ARMENIAN
    ISSUE


    05.03.2005 15:07

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Organization for Security and Cooperation in
    Europe (OSCE) has called on the Turkish authorities to eliminate
    references in official documents suggesting that calls for troop
    withdrawal from Cyprus or claims that Armenians were subject to a
    genocide in 1915 should be treated as crimes, the Turkish Daily News
    reported. References to Cyprus and Armenian issues are found in an
    explanatory document accompanying Article 305 of the Turkish Penal
    Code, which regulates `offenses against national interests.' OSCE
    representative on freedom of the media Miklos Haraszti said that
    reforms in the penal code were generally welcomed but complained that
    there were still some worrying provisions in it, calling for the
    removal of two articles in order to further expand freedom of speech
    in Turkey.
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