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Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Raqgip Zarakolu On Trial In Turkey Today
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` July 4, 2012
Ragip Zarakolu
On the 2nd July at Silvri, Turkey the trial of Ragip Zarakolu,
publisher, editor, human rights activist and defender of free speech,
begins. Ragıp is director of the Belge Publishing House, which has
been repeatedly bombed, prosecuted and penalised numerous times for
simply publishing books otherwise not available in Turkey.
He was arrested in Istanbul on the 28th october 2011 with the
sociologist Busra Ersanli, and both were charged on 1st November 2011
with belonging to an armed terrorrist organisation and held in a
high-sercurity prison. Ragıp Zarakolu has been on bail since 10 april
2012
Founder of the Turkish Human Rights Association [IHD], Ragıp Zarakolu
is pioneer of a courageous work in Turkey in publishing real history
rather than official racist-nationalist-Turkish history, particularly
in connection with the Armenian Genocide and the Kurdish struggle. We
maintain that this is the reason for his repeated persecution and this
particular trial.
As the writer and journalist Erol Ã-zkoray has said `The trial is a
symbol for democracy, liberty of thought, and free speech. In the
imprisonnant, it is the demoratic future of the country which is at
risk but also an entire intelligentsia and also all the intellectuals
opposed to the government'.
Abusive use of the anti-terrorist law and the capaign of répression
begun in 2009 under the name of sous le nom d' « opérations KCK »
allows the Turkish State to muzzle those who fight peacefully for the
rights of Kurds for the official recognition of the Armenian
Genocideor for those who denounce the pressure of the Muslim
Brotherhood of Fethullah Gülen on the AKP governement .
The UK goernment portrays Turkey as a model of democracy for the Arab
world. According to the International Press Institute,(IPI) however.
Turkey is the world's largest prison of opinion even worse than China
and Iran . Journalists, solicitprs, trade unionists, MPs, mayors,
students, academics: thousands of political prisoners await the
Turkish Spring in prison
The lawyers of Ragıp Zarakolu hope that international pressure may
result in the release of the publisher and the other imprisoned
intellectuals ` including his son Deniz, and BüÅ?ra Ersanlı ` jugés
lundi pour « terrorisme » :
The Public prosecutor of Istanbul, Adnan Çimen, has asked for a 7.5 to
15 years imprisonment for Ragıp Zarakolu and 15 to 22.5 years
imprisonment for BüÅ?ra Ersanlı.
« We must absolutely save this peaceful and humanistic man. He is a
`Great man', rare amongst us, who we must protect, and we are obliged
to save him, so that we can build a strong friendship between the
Armenian and Turkish peoples a friendship symbolized by Ragip since a
quarter of a century' said Erol Ozjoray,
. Practical infos: Several Foreign Institutions are expected at the
trial. A Press Conference will be held at 4 p.m. at the Journalist
Centre,Gazeteciler Cemiyeti), Cagaloglu, Istanbul
Contact Ragip Zarakolu : [email protected]
Place of the trial : Campus de Silivri ` Silivri ` Turkey: Silivri is
67 km west of à l'ouest Istanbul
Lawyers Mme Sennur Baybuga : 0212 351 89 25 `
[email protected] , M. Osman Ergin: 0532 247 64 95 ,M. Ozcan
Kilic: 0533 340 43 62 ,Fikret Ilkiz ` [email protected]
* We call on your assistance to hand leaflets to MPs at Westminster
Tube station near BIg Ben on this Monday evening from 5 p.m.
(Details from 07718982732)
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Raqgip Zarakolu On Trial In Turkey Today
http://www.armenianlife.com/2012/07/04/democracy-on-trial-in-turkey-while-cameron-miliband-look-the-other-way-nobel-peace-prize-nominee-raqgip-zarakolu-on-trial-in-turkey-today/
` July 4, 2012
Ragip Zarakolu
On the 2nd July at Silvri, Turkey the trial of Ragip Zarakolu,
publisher, editor, human rights activist and defender of free speech,
begins. Ragıp is director of the Belge Publishing House, which has
been repeatedly bombed, prosecuted and penalised numerous times for
simply publishing books otherwise not available in Turkey.
He was arrested in Istanbul on the 28th october 2011 with the
sociologist Busra Ersanli, and both were charged on 1st November 2011
with belonging to an armed terrorrist organisation and held in a
high-sercurity prison. Ragıp Zarakolu has been on bail since 10 april
2012
Founder of the Turkish Human Rights Association [IHD], Ragıp Zarakolu
is pioneer of a courageous work in Turkey in publishing real history
rather than official racist-nationalist-Turkish history, particularly
in connection with the Armenian Genocide and the Kurdish struggle. We
maintain that this is the reason for his repeated persecution and this
particular trial.
As the writer and journalist Erol Ã-zkoray has said `The trial is a
symbol for democracy, liberty of thought, and free speech. In the
imprisonnant, it is the demoratic future of the country which is at
risk but also an entire intelligentsia and also all the intellectuals
opposed to the government'.
Abusive use of the anti-terrorist law and the capaign of répression
begun in 2009 under the name of sous le nom d' « opérations KCK »
allows the Turkish State to muzzle those who fight peacefully for the
rights of Kurds for the official recognition of the Armenian
Genocideor for those who denounce the pressure of the Muslim
Brotherhood of Fethullah Gülen on the AKP governement .
The UK goernment portrays Turkey as a model of democracy for the Arab
world. According to the International Press Institute,(IPI) however.
Turkey is the world's largest prison of opinion even worse than China
and Iran . Journalists, solicitprs, trade unionists, MPs, mayors,
students, academics: thousands of political prisoners await the
Turkish Spring in prison
The lawyers of Ragıp Zarakolu hope that international pressure may
result in the release of the publisher and the other imprisoned
intellectuals ` including his son Deniz, and BüÅ?ra Ersanlı ` jugés
lundi pour « terrorisme » :
The Public prosecutor of Istanbul, Adnan Çimen, has asked for a 7.5 to
15 years imprisonment for Ragıp Zarakolu and 15 to 22.5 years
imprisonment for BüÅ?ra Ersanlı.
« We must absolutely save this peaceful and humanistic man. He is a
`Great man', rare amongst us, who we must protect, and we are obliged
to save him, so that we can build a strong friendship between the
Armenian and Turkish peoples a friendship symbolized by Ragip since a
quarter of a century' said Erol Ozjoray,
. Practical infos: Several Foreign Institutions are expected at the
trial. A Press Conference will be held at 4 p.m. at the Journalist
Centre,Gazeteciler Cemiyeti), Cagaloglu, Istanbul
Contact Ragip Zarakolu : [email protected]
Place of the trial : Campus de Silivri ` Silivri ` Turkey: Silivri is
67 km west of à l'ouest Istanbul
Lawyers Mme Sennur Baybuga : 0212 351 89 25 `
[email protected] , M. Osman Ergin: 0532 247 64 95 ,M. Ozcan
Kilic: 0533 340 43 62 ,Fikret Ilkiz ` [email protected]
* We call on your assistance to hand leaflets to MPs at Westminster
Tube station near BIg Ben on this Monday evening from 5 p.m.
(Details from 07718982732)