A Positive Step in Turkey

Turkey could rethink insult law: Turkish President Abdullah Gul has called for changes to a law that has allowed writers to face trial for insulting Turkish identity.

I know one person who has suffered prosecution for quite innocent remarks, Dr. Attila Yayla, president of the Association for Liberal Thinking.



2 Responses to “A Positive Step in Turkey”

  1. Dr. Palmer – This might amuse you: From the comments section of the Boettke blog.

    Keep up the good work

    “To me, and many at the LvMI, that seems like an uphill or rather upstream battle. There are incentives and selection processes in place to ensure that research favorable to the state is advanced — at least in broad paradigm. The solution is to do an end-run around all of that non-sense and create our own journals and publications. Books such as Hoppe’s Democracy have, for example, been influential in Eastern European countries, where many are fed up with Statism. I could pose a similarly sarcastic question, like the one you asked, and say who else, besides Hoppe, has had audience with the Prince of Liechtenstein, or various paleocons in East Europe.”

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