GUL FILES SUIT AGAINST ARıTMAN

Hurriyet
Dec 23 2008
Turkey

ANKARA – President Abdullah Gul filed a case for compensation yesterday
against a main opposition deputy who made controversial claims about
his alleged Armenian roots.

The amount sought in the claim, YTL 1, represents symbolic compensation
for damages for CHP’s Canan Arıtman’s false allegations about his
mother’s ethnic origins and her public slander of his position as a
statesman, reported the Anatolia news agency yesterday. The case was
filed by Gul’s lawyer, Omer Kucuközcan.

Ancestry accusations In protest to Gul’s approach over an apology
campaign launched by Turkish intellectuals about World War I-era
killings of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, Arıtman
said Gul was a secret Armenian.

"Look at his ethnic origins on his mother side," she said in
controversial remarks last week that also drew a reaction from her
party. Speaking to reporters at the CHP’s party congress Sunday,
Arıtman said she would file a counter-claim if the president opened
a case against her. The CHP deputy received a written warning from
her party.

Before the case was filed, Gul said the registered history of his
family that had been traced back for centuries was Muslim and Turkish.

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress