A LAWSUIT IS FILED BY FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF HRANT DINK
PanARMENIAN.Net
03.03.2009 01:07 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A lawsuit has been filed by a foundation set up
in honor of the murdered Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in
Turkey. The former editor of Agos was murdered in 2007 by a young
nationalist whose links to a group of ultra-nationalists, codenamed
Ergenekon, operating within the security forces and state bureaucracy
are now being investigated. "In the whole of the documentary the word
‘Armenian’ has been used thousands of times and only with negative
connotations," the Foundation said, The Times reports.
As it is mentioned in the article, Mr Dink had been one of several
high-profile intellectuals, also including Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel
literature laureate, and Elif Shafak, the bestselling author, who had
been sued by nationalist lawyers over comments and writings alluding
Armenian Genocide. "You can see that all those cases were part of
a project of manipulation … There is a sick, abnormal tissue of
Turkish society that is poisoned by a nationalist, racist virus,"
said Ufuk Uras, an independent MP who backs Mr Kaya’s case.