TURKISH NATIONALISTS THREATEN ARMENIAN PATRIARCH OF KONSTANTINOPOL AND WRITER ORHAN PAMUK
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Feb 07 2007
ANKARA, FEBRUARY 7, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Words of praising
addressed to Ogyun Samast accused of murdering editor-in-chief of
Istanbul’s Agos newspaper Hrant Dink were published in the "forum"
column of Internet site of Trapison’s Nor Pelitlispor football club.
The Turkish nationalists "gave" the title of "national hero" to the
criminal. They not only express readiness "to become Samasts" and "to
sacrifice their lives for the sake of the homeland," but also threaten
Nobel prize-winner, leading Turkish intellectual Orhan Pamuk, Agos’
editor Etienne Mahchupian and Armenian Patriarch of Konstantinopol
Mesrop Archbishop Mutafian.
The Milliyet Turkish newspaper draws readers’ attention to the fact
that the country’s authorities has not started an interrogation yet
in connection with this terrible fact.