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Hurriyet, Turkey
July 5 2012
Reaction grows over daily's hate speech
ISTANBUL - DoÄ?an News Agency
A criminal complaint has been filed against a Turkish daily by some
221 writers, artists, politicians and business people for spreading
hate speech against a columnist, `blaming' him for being Armenian.
Turkish daily Yeni Akit has been targeting Ali BayramoÄ?lu, a columnist
for daily Yeni Å?afak, for his views on Turkey's minority issues,
referring to him as an `Armenian-origin columnist' the group said.
The group filing the complaint condemned Yeni Akit's stories which
targeted BayramoÄ?lu and said the daily was spreading hate against
minorities in Turkey, an act that should be considered a hate crime.
`We find it dangerous the broadcasting policy which regards ethnic and
religious identities as the enemy. The daily has been acting racist
and encoding writers and intellectuals as `Armenian, Rum (Anatolian
Greek,) or Jewish,'' the statement read.
The group also said BayramoÄ?lu was being pointed to as a target
similarly to slain Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink.
The paper also owns a website called habervaktim.com which pursues the
same policy.
Nobel Prize Laureate Orhan Pamuk, businessman Ä°shak Alaton and
Diyarbakır Mayor Osman Baydemir were among the signers.
July/05/2012
July 5 2012
Reaction grows over daily's hate speech
ISTANBUL - DoÄ?an News Agency
A criminal complaint has been filed against a Turkish daily by some
221 writers, artists, politicians and business people for spreading
hate speech against a columnist, `blaming' him for being Armenian.
Turkish daily Yeni Akit has been targeting Ali BayramoÄ?lu, a columnist
for daily Yeni Å?afak, for his views on Turkey's minority issues,
referring to him as an `Armenian-origin columnist' the group said.
The group filing the complaint condemned Yeni Akit's stories which
targeted BayramoÄ?lu and said the daily was spreading hate against
minorities in Turkey, an act that should be considered a hate crime.
`We find it dangerous the broadcasting policy which regards ethnic and
religious identities as the enemy. The daily has been acting racist
and encoding writers and intellectuals as `Armenian, Rum (Anatolian
Greek,) or Jewish,'' the statement read.
The group also said BayramoÄ?lu was being pointed to as a target
similarly to slain Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink.
The paper also owns a website called habervaktim.com which pursues the
same policy.
Nobel Prize Laureate Orhan Pamuk, businessman Ä°shak Alaton and
Diyarbakır Mayor Osman Baydemir were among the signers.
July/05/2012