PanArmenian News
March 5 2005
OSCE CALLED ON TURKEY TO CEASE PERSECUTION FOR DISCUSSING ARMENIAN
ISSUE
05.03.2005 15:07
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) has called on the Turkish authorities to eliminate
references in official documents suggesting that calls for troop
withdrawal from Cyprus or claims that Armenians were subject to a
genocide in 1915 should be treated as crimes, the Turkish Daily News
reported. References to Cyprus and Armenian issues are found in an
explanatory document accompanying Article 305 of the Turkish Penal
Code, which regulates `offenses against national interests.’ OSCE
representative on freedom of the media Miklos Haraszti said that
reforms in the penal code were generally welcomed but complained that
there were still some worrying provisions in it, calling for the
removal of two articles in order to further expand freedom of speech
in Turkey.