CALL TO SUPPORT AGOS NEWSPAPER: THE TRIAL OF ARAT DINK AND SARKIS SEROPYAN UNDER ARTICLE 301 CONTINUES ON 11 OCTOBER.
Gokce Gunduc

BÝA, Turkey
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Oct 10 2007

The Say Stop to Racism and Nationalism Initiative (DurDe) has called on
people to support the Agos newspaper on 11 October, when its editor
Arat Dink (the son of murdered journalist Hrant Dink) and licence
holder Sarkis Seropyan attend a hearing at their continuing trial at
a penal court in Sisli, central Istanbul.

The trial concerns news items on Hrant Dink’s recognition of an
"Armenian genocide" and a campaign opposing Article 301, precisely
the Article they are being tried under.

Condemnation of Article 301 and Hrant Dink murder trial

In a press statement, DurDe stated that Article 301 needed to be
abolished, the murder of Hrant Dink needed to be solved, and racists
needed to be brought to justice. The second hearing in the Hrant Dink
murder case, which took place on 1 October, was called "shameful".

"The court has not given permission to investigate the police
officer who took part in the planning of a murder and whose telephone
conversation has been listened to by the whole of Turkey. A police
officer who said about Hrant, ‘If he’s snuffed it, he’s snuffed it’
is now working next to the former Trabzon Chief of Police. Both have
been protected and rewarded."

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