BAKU: EU pays huge money to the organizers of apology campaign

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Jan 16 2009

The European Union pays huge money to the organizers of
Internet-campaign for apologizing to Armenians in Turkey ` LIST

[ 16 Jan 2009 18:36 ]
Baku-APA. The European Union was a promoter of the Internet-campaign
for apologizing to Armenians in Turkey and paid huge money to the
organizers of this campaign, the Turkish sources told APA.

Founders of the Helsinki Civil Assembly in Turkey professors Ahmet
Insel and Halil Berktay, professor of the Bilgi University Murad
Belge, Kurdish national Sherafettin Elchi, Kanal D presenter Mehmet
Ali Birand, writer Adalet Agaoglu received 107 thousand 414 euro for
each of them, professor Ibrahim Kaboglu ` 193 thousand 548.73 euro,
journalist Mine Kirikkanat ` 70 thousand euro, professor Atilla Yayla
` 449 thousand 620.40 euro, communist Ertogrul Kurkchu ` 809 thousand
414 euro, `Mazlumder’ circle ` 81 thousand 735.15 euro, editor of the
Armenian `Agos’ newspaper Etien Mahchupian ` one million 32 thousand
921.35 euro.

For this money they have to provide the Internet-campaign `We
apologize to Armenians’ and to involve more people in this campaign.