Rights for all

摘要

Earlier this month, a Turkish court acquitted the sociologist Pinar Selek on terrorism charges - the third time she has been cleared of causing a 1998 explosion at an Istanbul spice market that killed seven people. Seleks real crime, in the eyes of the Turkish government, seems to have been contact with Kurdish separatist groups as part of her academic research. Prosecutors have again appealed the not-guilty verdict, to howls of outrage from human-rights groups in Europe, which is watching Turkey's conduct in the case with interest as the nation seeks membership of the European Union (EU).