Halacoglu: Target is not me, it’s Turkey
Journal of Turkish Weekly
May 4 2005
President of the Turkish Historical Society, Prof. Doctor Yusuf
Halacoglu, has said that it is not he who is on trial in Switzerland,
but the Republic of Turkey.
“They tried Galileo, but the world continued to turn,” said Halacoglu,
in reference to the move by a prominent Swiss prosecutor to have him
brought in for questioning for his views on the Armenian allegations.
Said Halacoglu further: “It is not possible to understand how countried
like France, Belgium, and Switzerland could have moves to forbid
the expression of rejection of the Armenian genocide. What sort of
democracy, what sort of freedom of thought is this?”
Halacoglu points out what he sees as the inherent conflict in what
EU countries are doing: while curtailing his research and his right
to express it, they question Turkey’s democracy, freedom of thought,
and human rights situation.
Dr. Nilgun Gulcan said Switzerland has to arrest almost all Turkish
academicians “because all of us support Halocoglyu and all we us
think that Armenians lie” said Dr. Gulcan.
Gulcan further continued:
“This is a dirty game. They try to limit, they try to control our
thought. This is not the Europe we know. They back to the Dark Ages.
They deny the new Europe. I condemn Switzerland. And I declare that I
do dont accept Armenian allegations. They massacred more than 523,000
Muslims in 1915 and they blamed their neigbours.”
Agencies
