TURKISH POLICY TRIED TO ARREST ARMENIAN MP FOR STATEMENTS ON GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
04.11.2006 15:24 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The meeting of Newsxchange international forum
opened in Istanbul November 2.

Responsible for Haylur information program of the Public TV Company
of Armenia Harut Harutyunyan and Information Department Head
of Yerkir-Media TV channel, MP, ARF Dashnaktsutyun member Gegham
Manukyan took part in it. Turkish PM Erdogan addressing the meeting
reaffirmed Turkish official stand that there was no Genocide. In
response to Erdogan’s statement that owing to the war Armenians of
border regions of the Ottoman Empire were merely deported, Gegham
Manukyan asked a question how it could happen that Ottoman MP Grigor
Zohrap was arrested and killed. He also stated that Istanbul is a
city, symbolizing the beginning of the Armenian Genocide by arrests
of Armenian intelligentsia on April 24, 1915. Gegham Manukyan urged
the Turkish society and especially journalists to study these dark
pages of their history and recognize the fact of the Armenian Genocide.

During his speech he raised a poster, on which it was written in
English, "Turkey should find courage to recognize the Armenian
Genocide." Then Gegham Manukyan was surrounded by policemen, who
wanted to take him out of the hall. However, journalists prevented
this by asking Manukyan for a news conference. Manukyan repeated his
urge in English and Turkish. The organizers of the session stated
that if Manukyan is arrested, they will join him, reports the Yerkir.