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Turkey considers change to controversial law after MEP probed

Turkey's foreign minister has hinted Ankara might change the controversial rules on insults to the country's national identity, after they were used by a group of nationalists to trigger legal action against a deputy of the European Parliament.

"There seems to be a chain of systematic complaints. There appears to be a mentality deliberately aiming to create chaos," Abdullah Gul told the NTV news channel on Wednesday (28 December), reacting to the request to try a Dutch MEP Joost Lagendi...

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