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Turkish Court Rejects Journalist’s Appeal

TURKISH COURT REJECTS JOURNALIST’S APPEAL

Nanaimo Daily News (British Columbia, Canada)
May 3, 2006 Wednesday
Final Edition

ANKARA — A Turkish court rejected an appeal by an ethnic Armenian
journalist against a conviction that found him guilty of insulting
Turkish national identity, in a case watched closely by the European
Union.

Hrant Dink, editor of the weekly Agos newspaper, in October received
a six-month suspended sentence from an Istanbul court for articles he
wrote in 2004 about the killing of hundreds of thousands of Armenians
by Ottoman Turks in 1915.

The appeals court in Ankara upheld the substance of the ruling Tuesday.

“I am deeply saddened by the decision,” Dink said. “We were expecting
the court to say that the accusations were baseless.”

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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