Human Rights Association Expressed Support for Dink

PanARMENIAN.Net
18.07.2006 18:35 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Human Rights Association (IHD) expressed support
for editor of Istanbul-based Agos Armenian newspaper Hrant Dink, who
was recently convicted on charges of "insulting Turkishness." Sanar
Yurdatapan, a representative of the Peace Initiative group, said that
they advocate the same ideas that were expressed in the article Dink
was charged on and demand that Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code
(TCK) be abolished.

Dink, as well as many other writers and journalists, have faced
charges based on Article 301. Speaking at a press conference marking
the 20th anniversary of the Human Rights Association as well as the
recent prison sentence imposed on writer Hrant Dink, IHD head Yusuf
Alatas said that the IHD always advocated peace, particularly for
the resolution of the Kurdish problem, reports the New Anatolian.

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