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New TCK under spotlight of lawyers

The Human Rights Agenda Association, the only human rights association based in Izmir, has published a booklet called “Freedom of Expression in the New Turkish Penal Code” under a project titled Reform the Penal Code for Human Rights, which points out some mistakes in the new Turkish Penal Code (TCK) and how they can be fixed. The TCK is nowadays a very popular issue because of the cases brought against writer Elif Safak, Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk and journalist Hrant Dirink. 

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