>>>And your country wants to get in the EU?! I think we aught to stipulate "European means European". How can the other countries k=live with this sort of thing from a partner?
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>>We have our own standard of judgment. We won't a clone Europe. Do you know in France you cannot say "There isn't a armenian genocide."? What a ironic thing?
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>I'v eno idea what you're talking about - in France? What's that got to do with Armenia?

France has censored what can and cannot be said about the Armenian genocide. Thats an EU country enforcing a censorship. Now you are no longer arguing about whether censorship is anti-EU ideals or not but where to draw the censorship line. Turkish government can make their own call as can France and as can (and does) Britain.


>>Your press has an internal cencorship so you can't see a court cencorship. Can you see a hateful cartoon about chris in your newspapers?
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>We CAN, if someone WANTS to. We see MANY MANY cartoons making jokes of Christ, featuring him, say, walking on water, or whatever. Tha't the thing - we CAN - it's down to taste and sensitivity. And we can insult "englshness" or "frenchness" all we like, and not get sent to jail

You cannot insult all you like. I'm pretty sure I could imagine a few cartoons depicting Jesus doing some things that would create a total and utter national outrage in any Christian soceity. The jokes about Mohammed were wrong - they crossed the boundary between freedom of speech and showed a lack of respect and sensitivity for anothers faith. How much disrepect was shown is not an objective opinion and open to objective analysis but a subjective issue.


>It's become the main-stay of our system, as Voltaire once said "I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend with my life your right to say it".

I am sure there are some things Voltaire would not defend your right to say.