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The trial of a Turkish professor on charges of insulting the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, is set to resume.
Professor Attila Yayla was brought to trial after a panel discussion in which he suggested the early Turkish Republic was not as progressive as it's painted.
The prosecutor has asked the judge to impose a five-year prison sentence.
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Professor Yayla was charged with "insulting Ataturk"...after he argued that the early years of the Turkish Republic were not progressive, politically.
He also warned that, as Turkey moved closer to Europe, Europeans would inevitably question why Turks display so many pictures and statues of Ataturk.
The professor was vilified by the Turkish press, suspended from work at an Ankara university - and brought to trial.
Professor Yayla, a well known liberal, denies the charge of insult and argues that academics must be guaranteed freedom of expression, to pursue their research.
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
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Turkish court hears 'insult' case
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