TURKISH WEBSITE OZUR DILIYORUZ REMOVES THE 13.315 NAMES SIGNATORIES OF THE PETITION APOLOGIZING TO ARMENIANS
De Facto
Dec 19, 2008
YEREVAN, 19.12.08. DE FACTO. Yesterday, on December 18, after a 3 hours
interruption, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., website özur diliyoruz,
which diffuses the petition of the intellectuals Turks be sorry " to
the Armenians for the Great Catastrophe of 1915", erased the 73 pages,
on which were registered 13 315 signatories names brought together
in 3 days, an independent French journalist Jean Eckian told DE FACTO.
According to Eckian, one cannot prevent oneself from thinking that
the initiative is to be brought closer to the declaration of Turkish
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who declared yesterday "I do
not accept nor supports this campaign. We did not commit a crime;
therefore we do not need to present excuses". It thus seems, for this
hour, that the censure fell once more on the freedom expression in
Turkey, unless the authors of the petition considered it necessary to
protect the identity from the thousands of people come to give their
support for the declaration. Probable or not, the Turkish authorities
already had to raise them. Always it is that it is not possible any
more maintaining to join the 250 original signatories. The petition
is blocked on number 13.315.
For answer to the petition of the intellectuals, Turkish nationalists
also launched a similar website "www.ozurdi liyorum.com" with the
following sentence: "there was no genocide was to defend the nation,
we will no excuses." And in Germany, Union of European Turkish
Democrats denounced the "campaign initiated by a group of so-called
intellectuals".
In addition, Azeri Press Agency, reports that, according to Turkish
information, "Member of MHP, parliamentarian, Janan Aritman, dropped
has hint that the president’s mother was Armenian. "We see that the
president supports this campaign. Abdullah Gul should be the president
of the whole Turkish nation, not off his ethnic origin. Investigate
the ethnic origin off the president’s mother, and you will see,"
he said, adding "the organizers of this petition are traitors".
In Eckian’s words, summon claim in Turkey that Abdullah Gul’s mother
was born to year Armenian-origin family from Kayseri and father was
year Arab moved to Kayseri.
To note, that the petition of Turkish intelligentsia aroused a great
interest in the international press.
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