Please Sign This Petition: Özür diliyoruz

[psikokemal]

Re: Please Sign This Petition: Özür diliyoruz

heh, ı m glad , you're welcome, we want justice for hrant .our trial

[Sako]

Re: Please Sign This Petition: Özür diliyoruz

And we want justice for millions of people, not just Hrant .

By the way, nice one, you changed your signature. What is it trying to say, don't really understand? Maybe in Turkish it is more understandable.

[Crimson Glow]

Re: Please Sign This Petition: Özür diliyoruz

ı signed too this petition and ı sure the number will be 1-2.000.000

I'm sure it will, but Turkey will deny it and say it was only 300,000 signatures signed during inter-communal struggles.

[Sako]

Re: Please Sign This Petition: Özür diliyoruz

Lol, that's a possibility. If Ergun Kirlikovali can bring down the numbers of the Armenians that were massacred in 1915 from 1,500,000 to 50,000-100,000 then what can't be done?

[Sako]

Re: Please Sign This Petition: Özür diliyoruz

29064!

[Alexandros]

Re: Please Sign This Petition: Özür diliyoruz

Turkey paves way for prosecution in Armenian apology campaign

Monday, March 02, 2009 15:54

A Turkish court annulled Monday a ruling that dismissed demands for the criminal prosecution of individuals who initiated an Internet campaign to issue a public apology to Armenians, broadcaster NTV reported. (UPDATED)

The prosecutors' office in Ankara in January had ruled against demands for the criminal prosecution of around 200 Turkish intellectuals who launched a website issuing an apology to Armenians regarding the 1915 incidents, which had also called for people to sign on in support.

There has been no need for criminal prosecution on the legal grounds that opposing opinions are also protected under freedom of thought in democratic societies, the prosecutors' office said in its ruling after completing its investigation regarding a petition calling for the organizers of the apology campaign to be charged with "insulting the Turkish nation openly" under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK).

The High Criminal Court in the Sincan district of the Turkish capital of Ankara annulled the prosecutors' office ruling on Monday, broadcaster NTV said.

Armenia, with the backing of the diaspora, claims up to 1.5 million of their kin were slaughtered in orchestrated killings in 1915.Turkey rejects the claims saying that 300,000 Armenians, along with at least as many Turks, died in civil strife that emerged when Armenians took up arms, backed by Russia, for independence in eastern Anatolia.

The issue remains unsolved as Armenia drags its feet on accepting Turkey's proposal to form an independent commission to investigate the claims.

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[Sako]

Re: Please Sign This Petition: Özür diliyoruz

Good to know no one will be in trouble.

29318 signatures now.

[Alexandros]

Re: Please Sign This Petition: Özür diliyoruz

Good to know no one will be in trouble.

29318 signatures now.

Saco,

I don`t know if you were referring to the article but if I have understood the article I posted correctly, is that those who started the apology campaign could be prosecuted.

That`s why the title say: "Turkey paves way for prosecution in Armenian apology campaign".Or have I misunderstood the article?Please correct me, since my English isn`t that good.

[Eddo211]

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Saco,

I don`t know if you were referring to the article but if I have understood the article I posted correctly, is that those who started the apology campaign could be prosecuted.

That`s why the title say: "Turkey paves way for prosecution in Armenian apology campaign".Or have I misunderstood the article?Please correct me, since my English isn`t that good.

You got it right buddy. It is very confusing and I can see how Saco got mislead, I almost thought the same thing (I had to read it twice) but what they are saying is that the Court prosecutor determined after his investigation that charges must NOT be brought up against these people because our own laws gives them the protection of freedom of thought in this Democracy.

What the Judge has done is to overrule the prosecutor’s findings and pretty much has told him that ----- no way hose, these 200 trators are going down hard. Don’t you know who runs this country, well they will find out. We did our democratic duties with you investigating this, now it time to show them that you don’t miss with our Turkishness.

Anyway that is how I read it.

[Alexandros]

Re: Please Sign This Petition: Özür diliyoruz

You got it right buddy. It is very confusing and I can see how Saco got mislead, I almost thought the same thing (I had to read it twice) but what they are saying is that the Court prosecutor determined after his investigation that charges must NOT be brought up against these people because our own laws gives them the protection of freedom of thought in this Democracy.

What the Judge has done is to overrule the prosecutor’s findings and pretty much has told him that ----- no way hose, these 200 trators are going down hard. Don’t you know who runs this country, well they will find out. We did our democratic duties with you investigating this, now it time to show them that you don’t miss with our Turkishness.

Anyway that is how I read it.

Big thanks Edo for clarifying what the article said.I also had to re-read the article a couple of times before I could understand what they were trying say but still I wasn`t sure.

Anyway, thanks again Edo!