Turkish Cabinet discusses novelist 'insults' case

Turkey’s Cabinet was today discussing whether to drop charges against novelist Orhan Pamuk – a case the European Union has criticised as a threat to freedom of expression.

Pamuk was charged under a law which makes insulting Turkey a crime after a Swiss newspaper in February quoted him as saying: “30,000 Kurds and 1 million Armenians were killed in these lands, and nobody but me dares to talk about it.”