(RSF/IFEX) – On 18 July 2006, the Istanbul public prosecutor opened a new investigation against Hrant Dink, the managing editor of the Armenian-language weekly “Agos”, this time for referring to the massacre of Armenians in 1915 as “genocide.” Dink used the term in a 14 July interview for the British news agency Reuters about his […]
(RSF/IFEX) – On 18 July 2006, the Istanbul public prosecutor opened a new investigation against Hrant Dink, the managing editor of the Armenian-language weekly “Agos”, this time for referring to the massacre of Armenians in 1915 as “genocide.”
Dink used the term in a 14 July interview for the British news agency Reuters about his suspended sentence of six months in prison for “insulting Turkish identity.” He could face up to three years in prison if convicted on the new charge.
The Turkish state still refuses to recognise that a massacre of Armenians took place during the First World War.
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