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AUTHOR OF THE BOOK ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE HASAN CEMAL REMOVED FROM "MILLIYET"
19:55, 19 March, 2013
YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS: Author of the book "1915. Armenian
Genocide", grandson of Cemal Pasha, journalist and writer Hasan
Cemal was removed from the "Milliyet" newspaper, where he had worked
from 1998.
As reports Armenpress, referring to Turkish press, columnist Hasan
Cemal has quit writing for daily Milliyet after the Turkish newspaper
refused to publish the veteran journalist's first column after two
weeks. Cemal's last piece was published on March 2, voicing support for
the daily's decision to go ahead with the publication of the minutes
of a second parliamentarian visit to the jailed leader of the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan. The piece came after
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the newspaper, saying
the principle of press freedom does not give the media the right to
"act against the national interest of a country."
Erdogan had also slammed the columnist with the words "down with your
journalism, if this is the journalism you will conduct."
It is notable that author condemning Erdogan was removed, while editor
who published the article and other responsible were not.
Hasan Cemal, the grandson of Young Turk Party leader Jemal Pasha on
April 15 will present his new book "1915: Armenian Genocide" at St.
Thomas Armenian Church in Tenafly.
The book, which has become a bestseller in Turkey, presents factual
information about the Armenian Genocide and speaks about Cemal's
personal transformation--from someone who once denied the Armenian
Genocide to someone who not only recognizes it, but is willing to
risk publishing a book on his findings.
In addition to his personal story and evidence of the planned
massacres, passages from Cemal's grandfather, Cemal Pasha, one of
the masterminds behind the Armenian Genocide, are also quoted from
his own memoirs from 1919.
Cemal visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan five years
ago, and writes in his book, "To deny the Genocide would mean to be
an accomplice in this crime against humanity."
19:55, 19 March, 2013
YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS: Author of the book "1915. Armenian
Genocide", grandson of Cemal Pasha, journalist and writer Hasan
Cemal was removed from the "Milliyet" newspaper, where he had worked
from 1998.
As reports Armenpress, referring to Turkish press, columnist Hasan
Cemal has quit writing for daily Milliyet after the Turkish newspaper
refused to publish the veteran journalist's first column after two
weeks. Cemal's last piece was published on March 2, voicing support for
the daily's decision to go ahead with the publication of the minutes
of a second parliamentarian visit to the jailed leader of the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan. The piece came after
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the newspaper, saying
the principle of press freedom does not give the media the right to
"act against the national interest of a country."
Erdogan had also slammed the columnist with the words "down with your
journalism, if this is the journalism you will conduct."
It is notable that author condemning Erdogan was removed, while editor
who published the article and other responsible were not.
Hasan Cemal, the grandson of Young Turk Party leader Jemal Pasha on
April 15 will present his new book "1915: Armenian Genocide" at St.
Thomas Armenian Church in Tenafly.
The book, which has become a bestseller in Turkey, presents factual
information about the Armenian Genocide and speaks about Cemal's
personal transformation--from someone who once denied the Armenian
Genocide to someone who not only recognizes it, but is willing to
risk publishing a book on his findings.
In addition to his personal story and evidence of the planned
massacres, passages from Cemal's grandfather, Cemal Pasha, one of
the masterminds behind the Armenian Genocide, are also quoted from
his own memoirs from 1919.
Cemal visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan five years
ago, and writes in his book, "To deny the Genocide would mean to be
an accomplice in this crime against humanity."