ArmRadio – Public Radio, Armenia
Oct 12 2007
Two Turkish-Armenian journalists jailed for `insulting Turkishness’
12.10.2007 16:40
A court in Istanbul has found two Turkish-Armenian journalists guilty
of "insulting Turkishness" for reprinting an interview that referred
to the mass killing of Ottoman Armenians by Turks in 1915 as
genocide.
The ruling came one day after the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US
Congress approved a resolution that recognizes the killings as
genocide, infuriating Ankara, which denies any such thing.
The newspaper journalists were prosecuted under Article 301 of
Turkey’s penal code for publishing comments made by their
then-editor, Hrant Dink, in an interview with the Reuters news agency
last summer.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
