A CAMPAIGN TO TERRORIZE FOREIGNERS LINKED WITH ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
AZG – 09/24/05: Turkey has launched a campaign to terrorize all foreigners
who are somehow connected with the issue of the Armenian Genocide, a press
release by Turkish Press Review says. According to September 19 reports of
Ankara Anatolia news agency, the Republican Prosecutor of Skyutar brought an
indictment against a number of Armenian scientists who demonstrated
Ataturk’s picture with puppets in front of him at the conference on Armenian
Genocide at UCLA (it was a hint at a poster depicting Ataturk with 2 dead
children at his feet that was once well-known in a number of Armenian
communities in Diaspora).
Among the participants of the conference there were Vahram Shemmasian,
Artashes Kasakhian and Levon Marashlian. The indictment came from Dr.
Ibrahim Oztek, Dr. Zihni Papakci and Metin Hajimustafaogli, owner of Iqtidar
weekly. “We sue them for insulting the Turks and the founder of Turkey
Ataturk “, Oztek said.
The same day Ankara Anatolia agency informed that the leader of Turkish
Labor Party, Mehmed, Bedri Gyultekin, announced about it’s Party’s campaign
under the banner of “Do Not Buy Swiss Products” that will last until the
Swiss Parliament reconsiders its decision on Armenian Genocide. The Party
members gathered at one of the main squares of Ankara, Kizika, call for
their fellow citizens not to buy Swiss goods.
By Hakob Tsulikian