Turkish authorities have dropped charges against the novelist Orhan Pamuk, ending a trial which has drawn sharp criticism from Brussels for curbing rights on freedom of speech.
Reports by CNN Turk television on Sunday night (22 January) said an Istanbul court had withdrawn its charges against Mr Pamuk, according to European media.
Mr Pamuk had been charged by prosecutors of "denigrating Turkishness" after telling a Swiss paper in an interview "30,000 Kurds and 1 million Ottoman ...
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