PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION HINDERS ZARAKOLOU PARTICIPATE IN YEREVAN CONFERENCE
By Hakob Chakrian

AZG Armenian Daily #071, 21/04/2005

Armenian Genocide

Many prominent scholars, public and political figures from various
countries of the world and Diaspora have been invited to “Ultimate
Crime, Ultimate Challenge. Genocide and Human Rights” conference that
launched in Yerevan on April 20. The representatives of Turkey are
invited, as well.

Professor Basken Oran, from the Faculty of Political Science of the
Ankara University, and Professor Murad Belgen, from the Literature
Faculty of the Istanbul University, participated in the conference,
while Racep Zarakolou, well-known publisher and public figure,
was absent.

It turned out that he didn’t manage to arrive in Yerevan because he
initiated the translated publication of another work by an Armenian
author about the Armenian Genocide In Istanbul. The Public Prosecutor’s
Office began a preliminary investigation for the publication and
questioned Zarakolou, depriving him of the opportunity to participate
in the Yerevan conference dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide.