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    CONVICTION OF ARMENIAN JOURNALIST IN TURKEY OVERTURNED: PRESS

    Agence France Presse -- English
    May 1, 2006 Monday 4:07 PM GMT

    A court in Ankara Monday overturned on appeal the conviction of
    an Armenian journalist in Turkey, accused of insulting the Turkish
    identity, the Anatolia news agency reported.

    Hrant Dink, publisher of the bi-lingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper
    Agos, was sentenced to a suspended six-month sentence in October by
    a court in Istanbul for an article published in February 2004.

    The article about the massacre of Armenians during World War I
    in Turkey called on Armenians "to turn now to the new blood of an
    independent Armenia, which alone is capable of liberating the Armenian
    diaspora" and to reject any Turkish roots.

    The appeal judges in Ankara overturned the conviction due to procedural
    errors, Anatolia reported, adding that the case will be referred back
    to the Istanbul court for retrial.

    Dink's lawyer, Fethiye Cetin, could not confirm the Anatolia report
    when contacted by AFP, as he had not yet received word from the
    appeals court.

    Armenians claim up to 1.5 million of their kin were slaughtered in
    orchestrated killings between 1915 and 1917 in the final days of the
    Ottoman Empire, the predecessor of Turkey.

    It remains a sensitive issue as Turkey categorically rejects claims
    of genocide. Ankara argues that 300,000 Armenians and at least as
    many Turks died in civil strife when the Armenians took up arms
    for independence in eastern Anatolia and sided with Russian troops
    invading the crumbling Ottoman Empire.
    From: Baghdasarian
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