When `Armenian’ is swearword in Turkey, assaults against Armenians
will continue – report

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January 26, 2013 | 15:12

ISTANBUL. – Istanbul branch of the Human Rights Association of Turkey
and the country’s `Say No to Racism and Nationalism’ organization have
prepared a joint report with respect to the attacks that were carried
out, in the past two months, against elderly Armenian women in
Istanbul’s densely-Armenian-populated Samatya district.

The report was presented during a joint conference by these two
organizations, and the document stressed that the factor of burglary
in these assaults is not credible, Radikal daily of Turkey reports.

Addressing the conference, Meral Cildir, a representative of the
Istanbul branch of the Human Rights Association of Turkey, noted that
it is said among the Turkish society that when the word `Armenian’ is
used as a swearword in Turkey, the assaults against the country’s
Armenians will continue.

`The report will be sent to the Ministry of the Interior. The murder
case of Marissa Kucuk must be investigated openly. The investigation
should not include the murder case alone but, also, the potential
connecting links should be considered.

A law must be immediately adopted to define racism as a crime. The
state itself has to prove that it does not back nationalists and
racists,’ Cildir stated.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress