HRANT DINK’S MURDER IS A SHAME FOR TURKEY, SERGE SARGSIAN SAYS
Noyan Tapan
Feb 05 2007
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 5, NOYAN TAPAN. Connected with Hrant Dink’s murder,
the Armenian-Turkish relations are today at the focus of the world
community’s interest, and we are simply obliged to use the chance and
again to make our viewpoints reachable to everybody. Serge Sargsian,
the RA Defence Minister stated about it during the February 4 interview
to the "Armenia" TV.
Responding the question about his oftenly touching upon recently
H.Dink’s murder and the Armenian-Turkish relations, S.Sargsian
mentioned that Armenia has balanced approaches concerning those issue,
and he finds purposeful at the moment to again state loudly about
those approaches with the help of authoritative mass media.
"Hrant Dink’s murder is a shame for Turkey, and Turkey is obliged to
succeed in carrying out this shame: this murder again proved that not
everything is all right in Turkey," the Defence Minister stated. In his
opinion, if Turkey is not able to take adequate steps and "gradually
slips towards the swamp of chauvinism," it will be dangerous both
for Turkey and Armenia.