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    NINE ANTI-ARMENIAN PROTESTERS DETAINED IN TURKEY

    Vestnik Kavkaza
    April 19 2012
    Russia

    Istanbul police detained nine people today over alleged links to an
    anti-Armenian rally which took place in February, broadcaster NTV
    reported on its website, Hurriyet Daily News reports.

    A rally planned to commemorate the victims of the Khojaly massacre
    of 1992 degenerated into a racist, anti-Armenian demonstration on Feb.

    26, prompting the authorities to launch a probe into the incident.

    Police have detained nine people, two of whom are women, after being
    identified as having carried racist banners that read "You are all
    Armenians, you are all b.....s," during the rally.

    The suspects told the police that they were handed the banners by
    people they did not know before the rally.

    The police released the suspects after questioning them.

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