TRIAL OF EDITOR OF AGOS TURKISH-ARMENIAN NEWSPAPER RESUMED
YEREVAN, APRIL 29. ARMINFO. The trial of the editor of the
Turkish-Armenian newspaper “Agos” Grant Dink has been resumed today,
reports AP>
Dink is accused of insulting the Turkish national anthem especially
concerning the part mentioning “pride for belonging to heroic race.”
In 2002 in Sanliurfa Dink criticized the Turkey authorities for
anti-Armenian propaganda in schools. He says that the anthem Turkish
schoolchildren sing every morning says that it is happiness to be
Turk. This is discrimination against other ethnic minorities, says
Dink noting that all non-Turks are instructed to conceal their
nationality and to say that they are just citizens of Turkey. This is
an example of Turkey’s bad treatment of its ethnic minorities and this
a bad road towards the EU, notes Dink. Meanwhile Turkey keeps denying
the Armenian Genocide of 1915 when 1.5 mln of Armenians were
massacred, reports AP.