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    ANOTHER TRIAL AWAITS DINK

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    02.05.2006 19:46 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Editor of the Agos Armenian newspaper, ethnic
    Armenian Hrant Dink was given a six-month suspended sentence last
    October. He had written a newspaper article which addressed the mass
    killings of Ottoman Armenians nine decades ago, the BBC reports. This
    case is one of several monitored closely by EU officials concerned
    about limits on free speech in Turkey.

    In February, the chief prosecutor's office at the Appeals Court
    considered Mr Dink's case and recommended that the remarks were in
    no way insulting.

    But now, in a surprise development, the court itself has chosen to
    ignore that interpretation and ruled that the substance of the charge
    still stands. The high-profile newspaper editor, whose publication
    Agos appears in Turkish and Armenian, was first found guilty of
    insulting Turkishness last year when a court ruled that one of his
    articles described Turkish blood as dirty.

    European Union officials have expressed serious concern about the
    article of law that was used against Hrant Dink and several dozen
    other writers here in Turkey. Despite a series of reforms linked to
    Turkey's bid for membership of the EU, it is still illegal to insult
    the Turkish identity, the military and the judiciary and the line
    between criticism and insult is often blurred.

    We note that the next trial on Dink's case is scheduled in Istanbul
    May 16.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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