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    TURKEY MASKS AUTHORITARIAN RULE BY TRYING TO CHANGE ITS PAST

    June 11, 2013 - 17:54 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - An Istanbul-based Armenian Stephan Pechdimaldji's
    open letter titled "Dissent in Turkey" was posted at the Armenian
    National Committee of America (ANCA) Facebook page.

    As the letter sent by Pechdimaldji' to The New York Times said,
    "Recent events in Turkey should not surprise Western observers who
    continue to succumb to the falsehoods and dishonesties of Ankara's
    being a model democracy for booming Islamic countries. So-called
    free speech is embodied in a news media friendly to the government,
    a convenient tool, and more journalists are imprisoned for voicing
    their opposition than in any other country in the world, according
    to Reporters Without Borders."

    "Dissent is something that all democracies should embrace and not
    contain with water cannons or bullets. It's amazing to see how Turkey
    masks its authoritarian rule by redefining its present by trying to
    change its past.

    What has been transpiring in Taksim Square over the last several
    days is something the minority populations living in Turkey, like
    the Armenians, have been aware of for decades. Finally, the world is
    starting to see Ankara's true colors," the letter said.




    From: A. Papazian
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