Zaman, Turkey
July 12 2006
Dink’s Suspended Sentence Upholded
By Cihan News Agency
Published: Wednesday, July 12, 2006
zaman.com
The Penal Chamber of the Appeals Court has upheld the suspension of
a verdict against ethnic Armenian editor Hrant Dink.
Sisli Court had given Dink a 6-month suspended sentence on charges
of insulting the Turkish identity.
In his column for the Turkish Armenian daily Agos dated February 13,
2004, Dink had likened Turkish nationalism to carcinogenic tumors
and poisoned blood in its responsibility for genocide.
Today’s Appeals Court statement said that there was no doubt that
Dink’s statement ridiculed and insulted the Turkish identity.
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