Two Turkish-Armenian journalists jailed for `insulting Turkishness’

ArmRadio – Public Radio, Armenia
Oct 12 2007

Two Turkish-Armenian journalists jailed for `insulting Turkishness’
12.10.2007 16:40

A court in Istanbul has found two Turkish-Armenian journalists guilty
of "insulting Turkishness" for reprinting an interview that referred
to the mass killing of Ottoman Armenians by Turks in 1915 as
genocide.

The ruling came one day after the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US
Congress approved a resolution that recognizes the killings as
genocide, infuriating Ankara, which denies any such thing.

The newspaper journalists were prosecuted under Article 301 of
Turkey’s penal code for publishing comments made by their
then-editor, Hrant Dink, in an interview with the Reuters news agency
last summer.

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