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IN TURKEY, LIFE OF AN ARMENIAN IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS MCDONALD'S - TURKISH MP
news.am
February 03, 2012 | 10:58
ANKARA. - During the Turkish parliament's hearings on the proposal
for fight against the financing of terrorism, the Kurdish "Peace and
Democracy Party" (BDP) MP Sirri Sureyya Onder reflected on the court
ruling on the case of Hrant Dink, the founder and former chief editor
of Istanbul's Agos Armenian weekly, who was killed in 2007.
"The person [Erhan Tuncel] who was punished in the trial was punished
for placing a bomb in a hamburger-selling company [McDonald's]. In
Turkey, the life of an Armenian citizen is not as important as an
American company that sells hamburgers. You cannot touch a hamburger
seller, but you can kill an Armenian," Sirri Sureyya Onder said,
Turkish Haberx news agency informs.
To note, Erhan Tuncel was found not guilty of prompting Dink's
murder, and, instead, he was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months for
an explosion in a McDonald's store. But taking into account that
Tuncel was already incarcerated for that amount of time, the court
had ruled his release.
news.am
February 03, 2012 | 10:58
ANKARA. - During the Turkish parliament's hearings on the proposal
for fight against the financing of terrorism, the Kurdish "Peace and
Democracy Party" (BDP) MP Sirri Sureyya Onder reflected on the court
ruling on the case of Hrant Dink, the founder and former chief editor
of Istanbul's Agos Armenian weekly, who was killed in 2007.
"The person [Erhan Tuncel] who was punished in the trial was punished
for placing a bomb in a hamburger-selling company [McDonald's]. In
Turkey, the life of an Armenian citizen is not as important as an
American company that sells hamburgers. You cannot touch a hamburger
seller, but you can kill an Armenian," Sirri Sureyya Onder said,
Turkish Haberx news agency informs.
To note, Erhan Tuncel was found not guilty of prompting Dink's
murder, and, instead, he was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months for
an explosion in a McDonald's store. But taking into account that
Tuncel was already incarcerated for that amount of time, the court
had ruled his release.