TURKISH COURT ACCUSES ARMENIANS IN GENOCIDE
Author: A.Alasgarov

TREND, Azerbaijan
May 31 2006

The Court of Istanbul District of Shishla is scheduled to host on
16 June hearings on legal competence of statement by writer Orkhan
Pamuk on extermination of 1 million Armenian and 30,000 Kurds.

Trend special correspondent reports from Turkey the lawsuit was filed
by families of victims of the Armenian genocide, who are currently
residing in East Antalia, mainly in Igdir, Kars and Erzerum.

Azerbaijanis who were obliged to move to Turkey as a result of ethnic
cleansing by Armenians are also among plaintiffs.

In case the court makes a sentence on legal groundlessness of the
statement there will be considered possibilities of a legal verdict
on facts of massacre of Turks and Azerbaijanis carried out by Armenian.

On 16 June the Turkish will first over its history make a sentence
accusing Armenians in genocide.