Journalist’s Sentence Confirmed in Turkey
NRC Handelsblad (Dutch Daily Newspaper)
12 July 2006
Istanbul, 12 July- The Turkish Court of Appeal confirmed the sentence
of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink because of "insulting the
Turkish identity". In October last year Dink was given a suspended
prison sentence of a half year by a lower court. In his newspaper
"Agos" he had written that Armenians should distance themselves from
hating Turks, saying that it "poisons your blood". Earlier this year
Dink told NRC Handelsblad that his intention had been to say that
Armenians should face the future instead of the atrocious past of the
Turkish Genocide of the Armenians. But according to the court Dink’s
pronouncements came down to saying there is poison in Turkish blood.
(AFP – Dutch News Agency)