AGOS COLUMNIST FOUND INNOCENT

ArmRadio.am
31.03.2007 15:00

The Å~^iÅ~_li Office of the Public Prosecutor adjudicated that
historian Taner Akcam who in his article, published in the AGOS
journal, wrote the sentence " I believe that what happened between 1915
and 1917 was holocaust," was innocent, the Turkish Daily News reports.

The Office of the Public Prosecutor stated that using the word
"holocaust" is within the lines of freedom of speech and does not
contain an expression of insult against Turkey. The decision was
announced 12 days after the assassination of Hrant Dink, who was
judged in violation of Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK)
for also expressing the word "holocaust."

Taner Akcam has backed his former colleague, Dink, with the
article which said, "If using the word ‘Holocaust’ is a crime then
I am committing it at least once every single week. I have to be a
collaborator in Hrant’s alleged crime in order to clear this situation
of injustice." The Office of the Public Prosecutor ruled on Jan. 30
that the sentence authored with Akcam’s pen did not constitute an
offense and was within the limits of freedom of speech.

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