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.