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ISSUE OF ATTACKS ON ARMENIANS RAISED IN TURKISH PARLIAMENT
12:40, 13 February, 2013
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 13, ARMENPRESS. Member of the Turkish opposition
Republican People's Party of the Turkish Parliament Levent Gok applied
to the parliament's Human Rights Committee demanding to create a
special committee for the investigation of murders and attacks
on Armenian elderly women in Samatya district of Istanbul. The
Turkish parliamentarian stated in his application: "There is a
great possibility that the assaults have been initiated on ethnic or
religious grounds."
As reports "Armenpress" citing Turkish T24 TV channel, among other
things Levent Gok stated that two out of five ethnic Armenian citizens
died in the attacks in Sisli and Samatya districts, three were injured
and these attacks endanger the peaceful coexistence of Armenians and
Turks in Turkey.
12:40, 13 February, 2013
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 13, ARMENPRESS. Member of the Turkish opposition
Republican People's Party of the Turkish Parliament Levent Gok applied
to the parliament's Human Rights Committee demanding to create a
special committee for the investigation of murders and attacks
on Armenian elderly women in Samatya district of Istanbul. The
Turkish parliamentarian stated in his application: "There is a
great possibility that the assaults have been initiated on ethnic or
religious grounds."
As reports "Armenpress" citing Turkish T24 TV channel, among other
things Levent Gok stated that two out of five ethnic Armenian citizens
died in the attacks in Sisli and Samatya districts, three were injured
and these attacks endanger the peaceful coexistence of Armenians and
Turks in Turkey.