June 16, 2007

SON OF HRANT DINK FACES JAIL TIME

According to a June 14th INFO-TURK news article Arat Dink, son of slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, faces jail time if convicted for slander against the Turkish state according to the now infamous Article 301.

It appears that he reprinted in AGOS a 2006 interview in which his father describes the events of 1915 as genocide.

Arat is quoted as telling the court at his arraignment that it is "primitive, absurd and dangerous for the true history of these events to remain a taboo subject in Turkey."

Along with Arat Dink, Serkis Seropyan, a deputy editor at Agos also faces the same charges.

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