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Taner Akcam Found Innocent

TANER AKCAM FOUND INNOCENT

PanARMENIAN.Net
31.03.2007 15:13 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Sisli 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 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," Turkish Daily News reports.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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