Turkish Prosecutors Probe Apology Campaign

Emil Lazarian News

TURKISH PROSECUTORS PROBE APOLOGY CAMPAIGN

The Associated Press
Jan. 9, 2009

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run news agency says prosecutors are
investigating whether an online apology by Turkish intellectuals for
the World War I massacres of Armenians is unlawful.

The Anatolia news agency says the probe was launched after six people
formally complained that the campaign violates a law making it illegal
to "humiliate" the Turkish nation.

The probe will determine whether there is ground to prosecute
organizers. Nearly 27,000 people signed the apology. The law has been
used to prosecute several intellectuals.

Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed in an
event widely viewed by scholars as genocide. Turkey denies the deaths
were genocide, saying those killed were victims of civil war.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS