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    NGO FILES COMPLAINT AGAINST TURKEY MINISTER FOR SUPPORTING RACIST SLOGANS AGAINST ARMENIANS

    epress.am
    02.29.2012

    Human Rights Association's (IHD) Istanbul branch filed a criminal
    complaint against Turkish Interior Relations Minister Ä°dris Naim
    Å~^ahin, whom they claim supported the controversial slogans uttered
    against Armenians at Khojaly massacre demonstrations held in Istanbul
    on Feb. 26, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

    Meral Cıldır, the head of IHD's Istanbul branch, said Armenian-origin
    Turkish citizens called upon their association after the meeting,
    saying they felt themselves in danger and targeted. Cıldır said
    Å~^ahin's speech in the meeting area was open support for those
    who carried racist banners. The protest, which commemorated the
    Khojaly massacre in which hundreds of ethnic Azerbaijani civilians
    were killed, had staged some racist comments and slogans such as
    "You are all Armenians, you are all bastards." Another banner said
    "Today Taksim, tomorrow Yerevan will be conquered."

    Meanwhile, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the
    banners consisting hate speech in the march were singular examples.

    "A few marginal and singular banners carried in the protest cannot
    put our solidarity and sorrow into the shade. We will not forget the
    Khojaly massacre and we will not let them forget," Erdogan said in
    the group meeting of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) yesterday.

    However, AKP deputy Ayhan Sefer Ustun, also the head of Turkish
    Parliament's Human Rights Research Sub-Commission, said those banners
    were racist and discriminative, daily Radikal reported yesterday.

    Ustun called on the prosecutors to investigate the march.

    "The law is obvious. The ones who commit discrimination crimes must be
    punished. They [non-governmental organizations] demand us to prepare
    a bill against hate crimes, but firstly we need to implement the
    current law against those crimes," Ustun said.


    From: Baghdasarian
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