TURKISH LAWYER APPLIES TO COURT FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION

Yerkir
31.03.2010 13:43

Yerevan (Yerkir) – Turkish lawyer Bendal Celil Ezman has applied to
an Ankara court for recognition of the 1915 massacres of more than 1,5
million Armenians as genocide. Ealier, Ezman campaigned for apologies
for the tragic happenings of 1915.

The claim, sent to the Second Ankara Criminal Court, says that "Sait
Halim Pasha’s government of Turkey committed genocide against Turkish
population of Armenian origin in 1915," Haber Turk paper reported.

"Armenians were killed in 1915 within the framework of a special
scheduled plan," the paper quotes Bendal Celil Ezman’s claim.

"Turkey must face with its past," Ezman said in an interview.

This is the first precedent of filing of a claim to the Criminal Court
over the issue of the 1915 Genocide, stressed Turkish lawyer. When
asked if he doesn’t afraid of taking these steps, Ezman said:
"Everything that happens is Allah’s will, if something happens to me."