Professor convicted of insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Ataturk Museum in Ankara, Turkey

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A political science professor was convicted Monday of insulting the revered founder of modern Turkey and given a 15-month suspended prison sentence, a news report said. Atilla Yayla, a professor at Gazi University in Ankara and head of the Association for Liberal Thinking, was convicted of insulting the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

It is a crime in Turkey to insult Ataturk, the man who founded secular, modern Turkey from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire and is still revered here nearly 70 years after his death.
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