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Last update - 18:48 27/05/2009
Turkish club owner jailed for five months for banning Jews
By Reuters
Tags: Turkey, EU, Israel News

A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced a man to five months in prison for "insulting a section of society" after he put up a banner saying Jews and Armenians were not allowed to enter his business.

The ruling, which followed a complaint by a local human rights group, marks a change of public attitude towards minorities in European Union-aspirant Turkey.

Human rights groups and the EU have long accused Turkey of discrimination against its minorities.
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Niyazi Capa, who heads a cultural association in the city of Eskisehir, west of Ankara, put up the banner to protest against Israel's offensive in Gaza earlier this year, which drew widespread condemnation in predominantly Muslim Turkey.

However, the easing of curbs on freedom of expression and other liberal reforms as a result of Ankara's drive to meet European standards have opened up debate in areas that were previously taboo.

Turkey, which historically has poor relations with Armenia, said in April it was close to establishing diplomatic relations after it closed its border with Armenia in 1993. Turkey and Armenia trace their own dispute back to the First World War killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday criticized state policies that led to the expulsion of tens of thousands of Christian ethnic Greeks in the 20th century as "fascist."

Erdogan's comments, the first of its kind by a prime minister, infuriated nationalists and other elements of Turkey's conservative establishment.
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  1.   careful Turkey 19:02  |  EZ 27/05/09
  2.   Turkish Americans 19:25  |  Anonymous 27/05/09
  3.   rise of turkey 19:41  |  dave 27/05/09
  4.   Turkey should acknowledge the Armenian genocide.... 20:25  |  Hanna 27/05/09
  5.   Right Verdict for Wrong Reason 21:55  |  Josh 27/05/09
  6.   anti-semitism is a western invention 22:05  |  soruklu 27/05/09
  7.   Anonymous # 2 turkey fought with American forces 02:47  |  American in NY 28/05/09
  8.   Hanna Israel should acknowledge the Armenian holocaust 02:54  |  American in NY 28/05/09
  9.   #8 is a Turkey 04:15  |  Giles 28/05/09
  10.   Soruklu - 2nd try 05:04  |  David Israel 28/05/09
  11.   AM IN NY ISRAELI Armenian quater displays the Armenian Holocaust 05:38  |  PETER SM 28/05/09
  12.   Turkey and NATO - 2nd try 06:01  |  David Israel 28/05/09
  13.   He is not jailed 08:54  |  A TURKISH JEW 28/05/09
  14.   turkey hide their problems, with the kurds. 12:47  |  tarzan 28/05/09
  15.   David Israel # 12 re: Turkey & Nato 4th try 02:36  |  American in NY 29/05/09
  16.   #9 Giles: he is talking about an Israel issue. 23:41  |  AT 29/05/09
  17.   to soruklu 21:25  |  sedat 01/06/09
  18.   problems are deeper than the anti-semitic club owner 10:59  |  sammy 02/06/09
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