CITIZEN OF TURKEY INSISTS ON FINDING HIMSELF GUILTY ONLY OF ATTEMPT
OF SMUGGLING

YEREVAN, AUGUST 16, NOYAN TAPAN. Ektan Turkylmaz, a citizen of Turkey
charged with having made an attempt of smuggling, gave evidences
at the Court of First Instance of the Malatia-Sebastia community,
Yerevan, on August 15. The defendant stated that, on the whole, he
bought 109 or 110 books in Armenia. 4 of them are books published
before 1750, others are ones published from 1850 to 2004, about
50 books from which are of the publications of 1900-1924. He again
stated that he finds himself guilty only of an attempt of smuggling,
what, according to him, is a result of his not knowing laws of
Armenia. But, prosecutor Koryun Piloyan quoted a statement made by
witness Armen Khorenian during the later’s confrontation-examination
with Y.Turkeylmaz during the preliminary investigation. According
to the statement he forewarned of the spetial order on export of
incunabular books from Armenia. The defendant flatly disproved the
accusation of smuggling, according to which, with the help of his
sister, Y.Turkylmaz exported from Armenia Ghevond Alishan’s book
“Sisvan and Cilicia: Levon Metsagorts.” According to the defendant,
this book and, in general, any other has not been exported from
Armenia. And Y.Turkylmaz presented the above-mentioned book to a
person living in Armenia, whose name he did not want to mention. The
hearing on the case continues on August 16.