STRASBOURG, July 6: The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that Turkey’s former prime minister Necmettin Erbakan’s rights to freedom of expression and to a fair hearing were violated when he was convicted in 1998 for inciting hatred in a speech four years earlier.
Mr Erbakan served as Turkey’s first Islamist prime minister for a tumultuous year until June 1997 when the still powerful army forced him to resign.—AFP
