PanARMENIAN.Net
Turkish lawyer threatens to submit charges against Dutch official
16.03.2007 14:33 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish lawyer Kemal Kerincsiz threatens to submit
charges against Nebahat Albayrak, Secretary of State of the Dutch
Justice Ministry. He warns the Secretary of State that she may not
offend her native country. According to the nationalist lawyer best
thing to do for Albayrak is to hand in her Turkish passport, because
she is a member of a government that condemns the Armenian Genocide.
Kerincsiz said so in the Dutch news program `Een Vandaag’. The threat
of a charge coincides with the discussion in the Netherlands about the
double nationality issue.
As PanARMENIAN.Net came to know from the Federation of Armenian
Organizations of the Netherlands, beside Dutch nationality Secretary
of State Albayrak has also a Turkish passport. In a response through
her spokesman she said she will wait and see if she will be really
charged.
In the past Kerincsiz has already started actions against Turkish
writer Orhan Pamuk and ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was
assassinated last January. In the case of Dink the charge led to a
condemnation, while the Istanbul court cancelled the case against
Pamuk under international pressure.
The lawyer calls upon the controversial article 301 of the Turkish
Criminal Code, which makes insult of the Turkish identity
punishable. Albayrak being a member of Dutch Parliament in 2004
supported a motion, which called for recognition of the Armenian
Genocide. That request was passed unanimously and was also taken over
by the Dutch government.