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A petition submitted to the İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has argued that Pamuk, in his novel “Nights of Plague”, insulted Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first President of the Republic, thereby provoking the public to hatred and hostility.

A 23-year-old woman, who was detained for insulting Atatürk in a video that she captured in front of his memorial tomb in Ankara, has been arrested on charge of violating the Law on Offences Committed Against Atatürk.

Guest of the TV programme “Derin Tarih” Süleyman Yeşilyurt and Editor-in-Chief of Derin Tarih Magazine Mustafa Armağan have been sentenced to 15 months in prison each, for "insulting Atatürk’s memory”.

Turkey is not one of hostile countries to the internet, but it has kept YouTube, the biggest video sharing site, inaccessible for two months because of insulting videos to Atatürk. The prosecutor says it is not enough to remove them from the Turkish database.

Bezirgan, a “headscarfed woman”, who announced that she did not like Atatürk during a TV show, said that the issue is not whether or not to like him, but how much freedom of expression there is.

Nuray Bezirgan, a Muslim woman, admits she does not like Atatürk in a TV program and the prosecutor starts an investigation.