TURKISH JOURNALIST ADDRESSES TO PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE DEMANDING TO PUNISH
THOSE USED THE SLOGAN "WE ARE ALL ARMENIANS"
ISTANBUL, JANUARY 29, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Mete Cagdas, an
article author of the "Haber 57" newspaper being published in Sinop
addressed to the city Prosecutor’s Office, stating that the slogan "We
are all Armenians, we are all Hrant Dink" is against Article 301 of the
Criminal Code and demanded that the authors and users of that slogan
are punished. "Hurriyet" wrote as if the grandfather of the journalist
presented the protest was killed by Armenians. And he now condemns his
colleague Hrant Dink’s murder but at the same time insists that the
slogan contradicts the law. As Marmara states Turkish Minister of
Industry and Trade Ali Coskun relates to the slogan "We are all
Armenians" with preservation. "By having respect towards everybody, I
pray the God that I am a Muslim and am happy that I am Turkish, he
said, adding that others must display the same respect towards him.
According to Radikal, Ankara Trade Chamber Chairman Sinan Aygun said:
"We, Turks, have lived in this geographic territory 1000 years. We are
not Hrant. My name is Sinan Aygun." And Minister of State Mehmet Ali
Sahin mentioned that those using the slogan "We are all Armenians, we
are all Hrant" want to say that the crime committed against Hrant Dink
is against all of us.