TURKISH PARLIAMENTARIAN TO OBSERVE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF ARMENIA IN STAFF OF PACE

Noyan Tapan
Feb 15, 2008

ANKARA, FEBRUARY 15, NOYAN TAPAN. Nursuna Memecan, an MP of Istanbul
of the ruling "Justice and Development" party of Turkey, will observe
the forthcoming presidential elections in Armenia on February 19.

As the Jihan agency reports, the Turkish parliamentarian has been
included in the delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe composed of 27 members, which will visit Armenia on
February 18-20 headed by John Prescott with the mission of observing
the presidential elections jointly with the observers of the OSCE
Parliamentary Assembly, the OSCE Democratic Institutions and Human
Rights’ Office and the European Parliament.

It should be mentioned that Mrs. Memecan, according to the Turkish
press, was included in the delegation of the Great National Assembly
of Turkey, which was leaving for the United States for the purpose
of preventing the adoption of Resolution 106 on the Armenian Genocide
in the Commission of Foreign Relations of the House of Representatives.

It should also be mentioned that before the regular hearing of the case
on the murder of Hrant Dink, the former editor-in-chief of the weekly
Agos, which was held a few days ago, about 300 people had gathered in
front of the building of the court and Nursuna Memecan together with
Etyen Mahchupian, the current editor-in-chief of Agos, as well as a
few Turkish intellectuals and MPs, was among the crowd. The gathered
people stretched "For Hrant, for justice" poster and demanded that
the murder case of the editor-in-chief should be completely revealed.