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Armenian Journalist Faces Three Years Jail For "Insulting Turkish Identity"

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  • Armenian Journalist Faces Three Years Jail For "Insulting Turkish Identity"

    ARMENIAN JOURNALIST FACES THREE YEARS JAIL FOR "INSULTING TURKISH
    IDENTITY"

    YEREVAN, JULY 14. ARMINFO. Reporters Without Borders today criticised
    the current trial of a Turkish-Armenian journalist, Hrant Dink, for
    "insulting Turkish identity" and said the government taboo against
    publicly discussing the 1915 genocide against Armenians was a
    "continuing barrier to freedom of expression" in Turkey.

    It said that with only three months to go before negotiations were due
    to start about Turkey joining the European Union, Dink risked being
    jailed under article 301 of the criminal code for publishing an
    article (on 13 February 2004) called "Getting to know Armenia" in the
    Turkish- Armenian bilingual weekly, Agos, that he runs. His trial
    began on 7 July before a court in Sisli, Istanbul.

    The world press freedom organisation said it was concerned about fuzzy
    language in the new criminal code that could "easily be used against
    journalists discussing sensitive topics," such as the Armenian
    genocide or withdrawal of Turkish troops from Cyprus.

    Dink's article urged Armenians to turn their attention "to the new
    blood of independent Armenia," as the only way to free them from the
    burden of exile and called on them to symbolically reject "the
    adulterated part of their Turkish blood." Nine complaints for
    "insulting Turkish identity" had been filed against him by 16 April
    2004 before the Sisli court. "This trial is based on a total
    misunderstanding," Dink told Reporters Without Borders. "I never meant
    to insult Turkish citizens. The term in question was taken out of
    context and is only symbolic. The real subject of the article is the
    Armenian diaspora who, once they have come to terms with the Turkish
    part of their identity, can seek new answers to their questions from
    independent Armenia."

    State prosecutor Turgay Evsen has called for a three-year prison
    sentence for Dink under the new penal code, which came into force on 1
    June. Dink founded his paper in Istanbul in 1996 and it has a
    circulation of 5,500.


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