Hate Banner Against Armenians Punished

Hate Banner Against Armenians Punished
An Istanbul court found 6 defendants guilty for carrying a banner
including hate speech against Armenians, sentencing them to 5 month of
prison which was later on commuted to a fine.

Ã?°stanbul – BIA News Desk
27 December 2012, Thursday

An Istanbul court found 6 defendants guilty for carrying a banner
including hate speech against Armenias during a protest in Istanbul on
the 25th anniversary of Khojaly Massacre in Azerbaijan. The judge
sentenced them to 5 month of prison which was later on commuted to a
fine of roughly 1,300 euros.
10 defendants stood trial today where they denied charges and asked
for dismissal. The judge found 6 defendants–Derya KabakçÃ?±, Burak
Kahveci, Cihan Dabak, Umut Akbulut, Hasan Hüseyin Kocabey and Kaz�±m
Büyükbunar–guilty for “igniting hatred and revenge among public”
according to Penal Code Article 216. Charges on other defendants–Onur
GürecioÃ?Â?lu, Recep Aksoy, Arzu Bekçi ve Samet Aksakal–were dismissed
as no evidence supported that they carried the banner.
On February 26, dozens of protestors gathered in Istanbul’s Taksim
Square for the 25th anniversary of Khojaly Massacre, a killing of
around 700 Azeri people by Russian and Armenian Army during the
Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1992. The defendants were charged for opening
a banner that included hate speech against Armenians.
This article has been compiled from CNNTURK. (EA/HK)

From: A. Papazian