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LETTER ABOUT TURKEY WAS MISLEADING
Sevag Tateosian
http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-to-the-editor/letter-about-turkey-was-misleading/article_99f7e24e-2661-11e1-a51b-001a4bcf6878.html
Posted: Monday, December 19, 2011 4:30 pm |
Related: Resolution on Turkey distorts the facts
I don't live in St. Louis but have stopped by your beautiful city many
times and have many acquaintances there. I am writing to call to your
attention that a letter you published has facts that are not true.
Erkin Baker's letter "Resolution on Turkey distorts facts" is
misleading.
Just last year Armenian children wanted to enter the Church of
Akhtamar in Van to pray, the same church that Baker asserts "Turkey
unilaterally restored" and were kicked out, not by the Turkish police,
but it was Turkish armed forces that demanded that they leave. How
do I know? The video is available on YouTube. Also last year Pope
Benedict XVI called on Turkey to give the Roman Catholic Church legal
recognition, which the country failed to do.
If you look at an overwhelming majority of churches in Eastern Turkey,
you will find a couple common themes. First the crosses have been
removed or altered. Second you will find that they have been used to
store hay or manure.
I don't blame Baker for not telling the truth. The fact is that the
Turkish government doesn't allow the actual facts to be taught in
schools. If one even tries to talk about what really is occurring,
Turkish Penal Code 301 kicks in and they are arrested on charges of
"insulting the Turkish nation." Nobel Peace Prize-winning author
Orhan Pamuk was charged under that section and imprisoned.
From: Baghdasarian
Sevag Tateosian
http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-to-the-editor/letter-about-turkey-was-misleading/article_99f7e24e-2661-11e1-a51b-001a4bcf6878.html
Posted: Monday, December 19, 2011 4:30 pm |
Related: Resolution on Turkey distorts the facts
I don't live in St. Louis but have stopped by your beautiful city many
times and have many acquaintances there. I am writing to call to your
attention that a letter you published has facts that are not true.
Erkin Baker's letter "Resolution on Turkey distorts facts" is
misleading.
Just last year Armenian children wanted to enter the Church of
Akhtamar in Van to pray, the same church that Baker asserts "Turkey
unilaterally restored" and were kicked out, not by the Turkish police,
but it was Turkish armed forces that demanded that they leave. How
do I know? The video is available on YouTube. Also last year Pope
Benedict XVI called on Turkey to give the Roman Catholic Church legal
recognition, which the country failed to do.
If you look at an overwhelming majority of churches in Eastern Turkey,
you will find a couple common themes. First the crosses have been
removed or altered. Second you will find that they have been used to
store hay or manure.
I don't blame Baker for not telling the truth. The fact is that the
Turkish government doesn't allow the actual facts to be taught in
schools. If one even tries to talk about what really is occurring,
Turkish Penal Code 301 kicks in and they are arrested on charges of
"insulting the Turkish nation." Nobel Peace Prize-winning author
Orhan Pamuk was charged under that section and imprisoned.
From: Baghdasarian