Turkey Bans Rushdie Book
From Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey —
The government of Turkey on Friday banned Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses,” a book denounced by Muslims as blasphemous. It gave no reason why the ban came months after controversy erupted elsewhere over the book.
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