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ARMENIAN, GERMAN INTELLECTUALS CALL FOR TURKISH PUBLISHER'S RELEASE
Tert.am
09.11.11
A group of Armenian and German intellectuals have called upon Turkish
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to release jailed publisher and
Genocide activist Ragip Zarakolu.
According to the Kurdish news agency Firat, scholars attending a
conference at the University of Potsdam (Germany) highly praised
Zarakolu's efforts towards the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
They subsequently sent a letter to PM Erdogan, demanding the
publisher's immediate release.
The conference had brought together the editor-in-chief of Agos weekly,
Robert Koptas (Istanbul), the lawyer of Hrant Dink's family, Fethiye
Cetin, genocide scholar Raffi Kantian and others.
Zarakolu, who is the director of Belge Publishing House, was arrested
recently during an operation against the Kurdistan Workers' Party
(PKK). An active campaigner against the denial of the Armenian
Genocide, he has periodically faced the Turkish authorities'
persecutions under Article 301 of the country's Criminal Code
(Insulting Turkishness). In 2007, he was sentenced to a six months'
imprisonment for translating Franz Werfel's Forty Days of Musa Dagh.
Zarakolu was later convicted for publishing the Turkish translation
George Jerjian's book on the Armenian Genocide (Justice will Liberate
Us) .
Earlier this year, Ragip Zarakolu was awarded the Hagop Meghapart
Lifetime Honorary Medal in Yerevan.
Tert.am
09.11.11
A group of Armenian and German intellectuals have called upon Turkish
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to release jailed publisher and
Genocide activist Ragip Zarakolu.
According to the Kurdish news agency Firat, scholars attending a
conference at the University of Potsdam (Germany) highly praised
Zarakolu's efforts towards the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
They subsequently sent a letter to PM Erdogan, demanding the
publisher's immediate release.
The conference had brought together the editor-in-chief of Agos weekly,
Robert Koptas (Istanbul), the lawyer of Hrant Dink's family, Fethiye
Cetin, genocide scholar Raffi Kantian and others.
Zarakolu, who is the director of Belge Publishing House, was arrested
recently during an operation against the Kurdistan Workers' Party
(PKK). An active campaigner against the denial of the Armenian
Genocide, he has periodically faced the Turkish authorities'
persecutions under Article 301 of the country's Criminal Code
(Insulting Turkishness). In 2007, he was sentenced to a six months'
imprisonment for translating Franz Werfel's Forty Days of Musa Dagh.
Zarakolu was later convicted for publishing the Turkish translation
George Jerjian's book on the Armenian Genocide (Justice will Liberate
Us) .
Earlier this year, Ragip Zarakolu was awarded the Hagop Meghapart
Lifetime Honorary Medal in Yerevan.