TURKEY TAKES TO COURT HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER WHO RECOGNIZES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
news.am, Armenia
Oct 31 2011
ISTANBUL. – Ragip Zarakolu, a well-known human rights defender and
director of Belge Publishing House, in Turkey, whom Turkish police
detained two days ago within the framework of the KCK (Kurdistan
Communities Union) affair, was taken to court on Monday morning.
Along with several leaders of the Kurdish “Peace and Democracy Party”
and Professor Busra Ersanli, Zarakolu was taken to a district court
in Istanbul, CNN Turk news agency reported.
On their way to the court, some of the detained made the victory sign
to news reporters and shouted: “If there is justice, we are free!”
Ragip Zarakolu’s Belge Publishing House has published numerous books on
the Armenian Genocide, and Zarakolu had visited Armenia in Spring 2011.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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