TURKEY PROTESTS COURT RULING TO DROP ACCUSATIONS OF ARMENIAN APOLOGY CAMPAIGN INITIATORS
PanARMENIAN.Net
04.02.2009 14:43 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A group of Turkish citizens have raised objection
to a court decision rejecting a demand for criminal prosecution of
initiators of the Armenian apology campaign, Anatolian Agency reports.
The office of the Ankara Public Prosecutor earlier this month
launched an investigation into the issue after submission of a
petition demanding the organizers of the apology campaign be charged
of "insulting the Turkish nation" under Article 301 of the Turkish
Penal Code (TCK).
Completing its investigation, the prosecutor’s office in Ankara last
week dropped the case, what aroused indignation because "the organizers
were not even questioned."
Some 30 thousand people have already signed the petition which reads,
"My conscience does not accept the insensitivity showed to and the
denial of the Great Calamity that befell the Ottoman Armenians in
1915. I reject this injustice and for my share, I empathize with the
feelings and pain of my Armenian brothers. I apologize to them.".