‘SEVAG WAS KILLED BECAUSE HE WAS ARMENIAN’
Today’s Zaman
Feb 10 2012
Turkey
Pvt. Sevag Å~^ahin Balıkcı — a Turkish soldier who died last year
when, according to official reports, his friend’s rifle accidentally
discharged — was killed because he was Armenian, organizers of the
“Justice for Sevag” campaign claimed at a press conference on Friday.
Speaking to the press, the campaign’s spokesperson, Kerem Kabadayı,
claimed Balıkcı was killed intentionally on the date the Armenian
diaspora has chosen to commemorate the incidents of 1915, when hundreds
of thousands of Armenians were allegedly killed in the Ottoman Empire
during World War I.
Pvt. Balıkcı was killed on April 24, 2011. Officers and other
privates in his unit, which is stationed in Batman province, testified
that Balıkcı was shot accidentally while “joking around” with a close
friend, Kıvanc Agaoglu, who allegedly fired the lethal shot. They
were serving at the Kozluk GumuÅ~_göru gendarmerie station at the
time of the alleged murder.