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    TURKISH THREATS ON ITALIAN AND TURKISH JOURNALISTS
    By Jean Eckian

    AZG Armenian Daily
    03/12/2008

    Armenian Genocide

    The Italian journalist-writer Alberto Rosselli, author of "Olocausto
    armeno" (The Armenian holocaust) is death threat, announces the Italian
    press. And in Belgium, Dogan Ozguden, journalist and founder of news
    agency "Info-Turk", is threatened of lynching by ultra nationalist
    Turkish press, but also by the embassy and Turkish press in Belgium.

    Concerning the writer Alberto Rosselli, the death threats began a
    few months after the publication of its book in 2007. They continued
    until on October 26, 2008. Police detected that the phone calls were
    based from abroad, as well as the mails. The authors of the threats
    know perfectly the practices of Rosselli and his wife. And even the
    name of their dog.

    The affair of Mr. Dogan Ozguden began after itself denounced, November
    11, 2008, in an official statement, the defamatory and scandalous
    remarks of the Turkish Minister of defense, Vecdi Gonul. Which, during
    a speech made in honor of anniversary's died of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
    in Turkish embassy (Brussels), said: "The decision to deported the
    Greeks and Armenians at the beginning of the last century allowed
    the unification of Turkish people." He affirmed that the creation
    of a Turkish nation would have been possible thanks to this policy
    ordered by Ataturk.

    Defender of the Armenian cause, Dogan Ozguden fled Turkey on 1971,
    after the revolution. He deposited an official complaint for threats
    on his person.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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