Po članu 301. tog zakona, krivično je djelo "vrijeđati tursko biće", a on se koristio za ciljanje desetina intelektualaca, između kojih Orhana Pamuka, dobitnika Nobelove nagrade za književnost za 2006, i Hranta Dinka, istaknutog tursko-jermenskog urednika. 19. januara ove godine, na Dinka je jedan mladi ultranacionalista izvršio atentat.
Article 301 of the code makes it a crime to "insult Turkishness", and has been used to target scores of intellectuals, including Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, and Hrant Dink, a prominent Turkish-Armenian editor. On January 19th of this year, Dink was assassinated by a young ultranationalist.