ANOTHER TURKISH WRITER PERSECUTED FOR MENTIONING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
27.09.2008 15:23 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Members of four factions in Dutch Parliament, namely
the Christian Union, the CDA (Christian Democrats), the SGP (Political
Reformed Party) and the VVD (Liberal Party) have submitted Written
Questions to the Minister of Foreign Affairs about the permission
of the Turkish Minister of Justice to prosecute Turkish writer Temel
Demirer, because of his remarks on the Armenian Genocide the day after
the assassination of the Armenian Turkish journalist Hrant Dink,
the Federation of Armenian Organizations of the Netherlands (FAON)
told PanARMENIAN.Net.

Written questions by the MP’s Voordewind (Christian Union), Ormel
(Christian Democrats), Van der Staaij (Political Reformed Party)
and Van Baalen (Liberal Party) to the Minister of Foreign Affairs on
the permission to prosecute the Turkish writer are as follows:

1. Have you been notified of the news that the Turkish Minister
of Justice has granted permission to prosecute writer Temel Demirer
pursuant to Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code because of utterances
on the Armenian Genocide?

2. In which cases has the Minister of Justice given permission to
institute a criminal case by invoking this Article after it had been
amended under the EU pressure?

3. Which conclusion do you draw from this situation also considering
the background of the answers to the earlier written questions on
the condemnation of a Turkish writer due to publication of a book on
the Armenian Genocide (nr. 3045), where you asserted that you could
not at the time evaluate the effect of the amendment of Article 301
properly? Doesn’t this make clear that the amendment of Article 301
has, neither in material nor procedural sense, produced the intended
result and that the further amendment of the Turkish Penal Code is
necessary? If not, why?

4. Which measures are you going to take, bilaterally as well as in EU
connection in order to make it clear to the Turkish government that
the continuing violation of the freedom of expression is unacceptable?

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress