LAND BERLIN COURT PREVENTED POLICE FROM PROHIBITING “TALAAT PASHA ACTION”
PanARMENIAN.Net
15.03.2006 21:52 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The court of Land Berlin yesterday evening prevented
the police from prohibiting the so-called Talaat Pasha Action scheduled
for March 18-19. However the human rights advocating organizations
and political figures supported the police and censured the court’s
decision, which will be appealed in the supreme legal instances. They
called upon the leadership to bar actions targeted at denial of
genocides and crimes of war, reported Yerkir Media TV Channel.
To remind, the other day the German police barred a series of rallies
the Turkish organizations planned to hold in Berlin in mid March. The
prohibition was based upon Article 189 of the German Criminal Code,
which bars to express “disrespect for the dead”. In its statement
the German authorities used expression “dead in 1915” to avoid term
Armenian Genocide. The rallies are planned to start with an event
titled Talaat Pasha Action within “Big Program – 2006” initiative
advanced by a number of Turkish political figures urging the Bundestag
to withdraw the Resolution on the Armenian Genocide.
It should be also reminded that in 2005 the Bundestag apologized to
the Armenian people and adopted a resolution saying that Germany being
an ally to Turkey during World War I bears responsibility for the
Armenian Genocide. The Resolution also calls upon Ankara to recognize
the Armenian Genocide.