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    TURKISH MASS MEDIA WORKS UNDER RESTRICTIONS

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    17.09.2008 15:31 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The mass media in Turkey, including the
    Armenian-language press, works under certain restrictions, Ara
    Kochunyan, editor-in-chief of Zhamanak Istanbul-based Armenian-language
    newspaper, told a news conference in Yerevan.

    "We do not use the term 'genocide' in our newspaper not because we deny
    this fact. This is a very sensitive issue in Turkey. Our newspaper
    publishes various versions of the 1915 events and the readers make
    conclusions," he said, adding that terminology is given a back seat
    in the issue.

    "The Armenian community of Istanbul is in an awkward position. On the
    one hand, we are Turkish citizens. On the other hand, we are the heirs
    of the victims of the 1915 events, when several dozens of thousands
    of people was all that has remained from a 200-thousand Armenian
    community. We have to keep it in mind," Kochunyan said and added,
    "Each editor has his "inner censor."

    Zhamanak was based in 1908 and is one of a few Armenian-language
    newspapers in the Diaspora.
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