TURKISH CIVIL SOCIETY FORCES HAND OF ITS GOVERNMENT

DE FACTO
Dec 17, 2008
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, 17.12.08. DE FACTO. Thousands of Turkish people sign each
day a petition launched by important Turkish personalities be sorry
to the Armenians, an independent French journalist Jean Eckian told
DE FACTO. "My conscience does not accept the insensitivity showed to
and the denial of the Great Calamity that befell the Ottoman Armenians
in 1915. I reject this injustice and for my share, I empathize with
the feelings and pain of my Armenian brothers. I apologize to them."

Known as a part of the text signed as of its launching by the
journalists Ece Temelkuran, Ali Bayramoglu, professors Baskin Oran,
Ahmet Insel and Cengiz Aktar, writer Perihan Magden, mathematician
Ali Nesin, sociologist Nilufer Gole and the historian Fikret Adanir.

Thus, since the assassination of the journalist Hrant Dink, the threats
physical on many intellectuals Turkish and the judgments pronounced
under the terms of iniquitous article 301, the Turkish civil society
decided to take the initiative since the visit of President Gul in
Yerevan on September 6, 2008.

In one day, the petition was signed by more than 8, 000 people.

Now, the question is to know, that will be the reaction of the Turkish
government while the international press has already seized this news.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress