PROSECUTORS TO INDICT ARMENIAN JOURNALIST FOR "INSULTING TURKISHNESS"

Anatolia news agency, Ankara
25 Sep 06

Istanbul, 25 September: Istanbul’s Sisli Prosecutor’s Office
prepared an indictment against Hrant Dink, the editor-in-chief of Agos
newspaper, and two other administrators of the newspaper on charges of
"insulting Turkishness".

In the indictment, the Prosecutor’s Office referred to Hrant Dink’s
interview with a foreign news agency, and recalled that the Agos
newspaper wrote a story about Dink’s remarks.

Hrant Dink is accused of saying: "Of course, I am saying that this
is a genocide because it can be seen from the outcome. We see that
people, who lived in these lands for about 4,000 years, disappeared
after the incidents."

The prosecutor asks for prison terms up to three years for not only
Hrant Dink but also Arat Dink and Serkis Seropyan, under Article 301
of the Turkish Penal Code.