HRANT DINK IS READY TO STATE IN FRANCE THAT "TURKS DID NOT CONDUCT GENOCIDE"

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Oct 10 2006

ISTANBUL, OCTOBER 10, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. If Frenchmen
adopts the draft law considering denial of the genocide as a crime,
"Akos" editor Hrant Dink will go to France, and how much he believes
the opposite, unfortunately, he will insist that Turks did not conduct
a genocide. According to the "Milliyet," H.Dink made such a statement,
adding that to puhish in Turkey people recognizing the genocide and
to punish people in France denying the genocide is the same thing and
the one who is against violation of the freedom of opinion in Turkey,
must be against it in France as well. "If I’m sentenced here, I’ll
be sentenced there as well," Dink said. He also expressed an opinion
that the French draft will damage the Armenian-Turkish relations and
will weaken possibility of ideological exchanges.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress