ANKARA PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE LAUNCHES CRIMINAL CASE ON ARMENIAN APOLOGY CAMPAIGN

Azeri Press Agency
Jan 9 2009
Azerbaijan

Ankara -APA. Ankara Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation
on Armenian apology campaign started via internet previously, APA
reports quoting Haberturk .

A group of citizens appealed to Prosecutor’s Office and asked to
launch a criminal case under Article 301 (humiliation of Turkish
people) of Criminal Code.

Written statement made by them covers establishment of Armenian apology
campaign on developments occurred in 1915 by a group of intellectuals.

"These insincere intellectuals paid no attention on savagery committed
by Armenian Armed Forces, which served for imperialist invaders,
against hundred thousand Turkish people. They accused Turkish people of
committing genocide against Armenians without any proof. "Accusation
of Turks in genocide is humiliation of Turkish nation ," said in a
statement .

The Prosecutor’s Office has launched a criminal case under Article
301 taking the appeal into account. Ankara Prosecutor’s Office will
call organizers of the campaign to give testimony and will investigate
the website created by them.