New Investigation Opened Against Hrant Dink for ‘Insulting Turkish
Identity’
By Cihan News Agency
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
zaman.com
The chief public prosecutor of the Sisli district of Istanbul has
initiated an investigation into ethnic Armenian journalist and writer
Hrant Dink for allegedly insulting and denigrating the Turkish identity
in a statement he made to Reuters news agency on July 14.
Hrant Dink, editor of the Agos newspaper which serves Turkey’s Armenian
community, told Reuters on July 14, "Of course I call this a genocide
because the result defines itself and gives itself the name. You can
see for yourself that a people that have lived on this land for 4000
years no longer exists in that region due to these events."
The fate of the Armenians under the Ottoman Empire during WW1 and
after remains a sensitive issue in Turkey.
Armenians claim that 1.5 million Armenians living in the Ottoman
Empire were killed as part of an intentional and systematic campaign
of genocide during World War I.
Turkey denies the allegations claiming that 200,000 Armenians
died during the forced migrations due to cold weather and poor
transportation conditions.
Last week, the Turkish Appeals Court upheld a suspended verdict
against ethnic Armenian editor Hrant Dink. In October last year,
Sisli Court in Istanbul had given Dink a 6-month suspended sentence
on charges of insulting the Turkish identity.
In his column for the Turkish Armenian daily Agos dated February 13,
2004, Dink had likened Turkish nationalism to carcinogenic tumors
and poisoned blood in its responsibility for genocide.
Today’s Appeals Court statement said that there was no doubt that
Dink’s statement ridiculed and insulted ‘Turkishness’.
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Zaman, Turkey
July 18 2006
New Investigation Opened Against Hrant Dink for ‘Insulting Turkish
Identity’
By Cihan News Agency
Published: Tuesday, July 18, 2006
zaman.com
The chief public prosecutor of the Sisli district of Istanbul has
initiated an investigation into ethnic Armenian journalist and writer
Hrant Dink for allegedly insulting and denigrating the Turkish
identity in a statement he made to Reuters news agency on July 14.
Hrant Dink, editor of the Agos newspaper which serves Turkey’s
Armenian community, told Reuters on July 14, "Of course I call this a
genocide because the result defines itself and gives itself the name.
You can see for yourself that a people that have lived on this land
for 4000 years no longer exists in that region due to these events."
The fate of the Armenians under the Ottoman Empire during WW1 and
after remains a sensitive issue in Turkey.
Armenians claim that 1.5 million Armenians living in the Ottoman
Empire were killed as part of an intentional and systematic campaign
of genocide during World War I.
Turkey denies the allegations claiming that 200,000 Armenians died
during the forced migrations due to cold weather and poor
transportation conditions.
Last week, the Turkish Appeals Court upheld a suspended verdict
against ethnic Armenian editor Hrant Dink. In October last year,
Sisli Court in Istanbul had given Dink a 6-month suspended sentence
on charges of insulting the Turkish identity.
In his column for the Turkish Armenian daily Agos dated February 13,
2004, Dink had likened Turkish nationalism to carcinogenic tumors and
poisoned blood in its responsibility for genocide.
Today’s Appeals Court statement said that there was no doubt that
Dink’s statement ridiculed and insulted ?Turkishness?.
For further information please visit
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