University suspends Turkish professor
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A university has suspended one of its professors for remarks he made about Turkey's revered founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, an official said Monday.
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Traditionally, clashes over academic freedom have pitted politicians or administrators against instructors who wanted to express their opinions and teach as they saw fit. But increasingly, it is students who are invoking academic freedom, claiming biased professors are violating their right to a classroom free from indoctrination.
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ISTANBUL -- One of Turkey's leading authors was acquitted yesterday of ``insulting Turkishness" -- a crime Western-looking Turks view as an embarrassment and one of the biggest obstacles to joining the European Union.
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By BENJAMIN HARVEY  ISTANBUL, Turkey - A court ordered access to YouTube's Web site blocked Wednesday after a prosecutor recommended the ban because of videos allegedly insulting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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A court ordered the YouTube Web site blocked throughout Turkey because of a video deemed insulting to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. The ban followed a week of what the news media termed a âvirtual warâ of videos between Greeks and Turks on YouTube. The largest Internet provider, Turk Telecom, complied with the ban and cut off access to the site. Insulting Ataturk is a criminal offense in Turkey.
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A Muslim teaching assistant suspended for wearing a veil in class is dismissed by the school governors.
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One of Turkey's leading authors was acquitted Thursday of "insulting Turkishness" in a novel that touched on the mass killings of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire.
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An Istanbul court acquits Turkish novelist Elif Safak,  who was accused of insulting "Turkishness".
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A Turkish court on Tuesday acquitted a writer of insulting the country's founder amid calls from the European Union to change repressive laws curbing freedom of expression.
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Ohio State tailback Lydell Ross was suspended for Saturday's game against Indiana by coach Jim Tressel for undisclosed reasons.
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Four college students on Thursday asked a Turkish court to revoke the ban it imposed on YouTube for running videos that prosecutors said insulted the founder of modern Turkey.
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A University of Mississippi fraternity has been suspended for a year after a black student said he was the victim of a racial slur and a physical assault at a party, school officials said Friday.
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A Hungarian fencing referee was expelled from the Olympics and suspended for two years Sunday after making several errors during Saturday night&#39;s gold-medal match in men&#39;s team foil.
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A Turkish company said on Tuesday it was suspending its operations in Iraq to save 10 employees abducted at the weekend by an Iraqi militant group which has threatened to kill them.
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DePaul University canceled the one remaining class taught by a controversial professor who has accused some Jews of improperly using the legacy of the Holocaust.
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And France bans happy slapping Turkey has taken steps to prevent access to YouTube after a video insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, was posted on the site.â¦
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A senior Istanbul police officer has been suspended from his post for reportedly ignoring a tip about a threat against an ethnic Armenian journalist's life about a year ago, newspapers said Tuesday.