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TURKISH PROSECUTORS PROBE APOLOGY CAMPAIGN
The Associated Press
Jan. 9, 2009
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's state-run news agency says prosecutors are
investigating whether an online apology by Turkish intellectuals for
the World War I massacres of Armenians is unlawful.
The Anatolia news agency says the probe was launched after six people
formally complained that the campaign violates a law making it illegal
to "humiliate" the Turkish nation.
The probe will determine whether there is ground to prosecute
organizers. Nearly 27,000 people signed the apology. The law has been
used to prosecute several intellectuals.
Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed in an
event widely viewed by scholars as genocide. Turkey denies the deaths
were genocide, saying those killed were victims of civil war.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
The Associated Press
Jan. 9, 2009
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's state-run news agency says prosecutors are
investigating whether an online apology by Turkish intellectuals for
the World War I massacres of Armenians is unlawful.
The Anatolia news agency says the probe was launched after six people
formally complained that the campaign violates a law making it illegal
to "humiliate" the Turkish nation.
The probe will determine whether there is ground to prosecute
organizers. Nearly 27,000 people signed the apology. The law has been
used to prosecute several intellectuals.
Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed in an
event widely viewed by scholars as genocide. Turkey denies the deaths
were genocide, saying those killed were victims of civil war.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress