Turkey's government will "soften" a law that was used to prosecute a Nobel laureate for insulting Turkish identity, says its justice minister, Mehmet Ali Sahin. The announcement came just hours after the European Union reiterated its concerns about the curb on free speech. Turkey, which hopes to join the EU, was criticised when the Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk was prosecuted for commenting on the mass killings of Armenians by Turks in the early 20th century. (Via ABC/AP)
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