Sabah, Turkey
Feb 23 2007

Permission for investigation demanded

The chief public prosecutor of Þiþli asked for permission from the
Ministry of Internal Affairs to start an investigation about the
magistrate Sarýgül and the organization committee for the banners
that read, "we are all Armenians."

Demand of permission to investigate the debated banners

The chief public prosecutor of Þiþli asked for permission from the
Ministry of Internal Affairs to start an investigation about the
magistrate Sarýgül and the organization committee for the banners
which read, "we are all Armenians."

An investigation will be started on the banners that say, "we are all
Hrant," "we are all Armenians," held up at the funeral of the
murdered editor-in-chief of Agos newspaper Hrant Dink. The chief
public prosecutor of Þiþli asked for permission from the Ministry of
Internal affairs to start an investigation about mayor Sarýgül and
the organization committee. In the complaint petition, it said that
the Þiþli magistrate Mustafa Sarýgül and the funeral organization
committee invited people to attend the funeral but the banners and
the slogans that were held up there were racist. The petition also
claimed that article 301 of the Turkish Commercial Code was also
insulted with the banner saying "Hrant’s murderer is article 301."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress