Author: Baghdasarian Karlen

Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Jan 27 2012

US envoy to Turkey: Face ghosts of the past

Serkan DemirtaÅ?
ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News

Hinting at France’s recent genocide bill, the US envoy to Ankara tells
Turkey that it must confront its past if it wants to rank among the
top economies by 2023

Turkey must deal with the ghosts of the past if it wants to become one
of the world’s top 10 economies by 2023, Washington’s envoy to Ankara
has said following controversy over a French bill to criminalize
denials of Armenian genocide claims.

`Every great country has brilliant moments of which we are proud in
our pasts and moments of pain,’ Francis Ricciardone, the U.S.
ambassador to Turkey, told a group of Ankara bureau chiefs late on
Jan. 25. `We think that historians need to grapple with this in an
open and honest way so that you can come to a full and frank
acknowledgement of what happened. We believe that you are beginning to
do that.’

The ambassador’s statement comes amid deep Turkish-French conflict
over a law penalizing the denial of the 1915 events as genocide in
France; similar attention over the claims affects Turkish-U.S. ties
almost every day before April 24, the day Armenians commemorate the
events.

`We like to see our friends get along and we hope that you will
overcome this dispute,’ Ricciardone said without commenting on the
nature of the French legislation. Instead, he reiterated Washington’s
objective of launching a new dialogue process between Turks and
Armenians.

`There needs to be a conversation. You need to get the historians
together on both sides. I’ve been glad to see since I’ve come back to
Turkey this past year that there is much more public conversation and
debate. It’s no longer a closed box,’ he said.

`Turks have greater confidence now to look into the past and to a
painful chapter and decide what it means. There is more contact
between Turks and Armenians to wrestle with this terrible period of
time. So we support that and we hope you will arrive at it,’ he said.

No US involvement in Uludere tragedy

Journalists at the meeting also asked whether the U.S. had played a
role in the Uludere tragedy, in which 34 people were killed in a
botched air raid in Southeast Anatolia after being mistaken for
militants due to incorrect military intelligence. Opposition parties
have blamed the U.S. for the killings, saying its Predators provide
visual intelligence to the Turkish military.

`Regarding Uludere, I can say clearly and uncritically that the United
States, both in general and in particular on the Uludere, does not get
involved in Turkish targeting decisions. So we have nothing to do with
the target selection in Uludere,’ he said. `A target selection is a
question that’s up to the Turkish side entirely. And certainly Turkey
does have its own capabilities regarding targeting.’
Iraq to solve own internal problem

Touching on Iraq, the U.S. ambassador offered a different view from
Turkey on the growing sectarian divide in the war-torn country in the
wake of the U.S.’ troop withdrawal. `Their internal affairs are their
internal affairs. We certainly respect them. We can’t direct what they
do. We never presume to do that. But we do support and encourage all
sides to work together within the constitutional and democratic
framework of the Iraqi state,’ he said, adding they were in close
cooperation with Turkey.

`We want to see Iraq stay [united and] rise above sectarian
differences and solve their problems in a political, peaceful and
democratic framework established under their constitution,’ he said.

On the Predators’ use of Iraq’s airspace, he said: `Iraq is
controlling its own airspace. I’d rather not speak in great detail as
to the arrangements and understandings that are in place, but I can
tell you that the United States respects Iraqi sovereignty over its
land and air space. And certainly the government of Turkey and the
government of Iraq are in touch with each other as well.’

On the early warning radar system deployed on Turkish territory,
Ricciardone confirmed that it had become operational and described its
goal as `working against all incoming hostile missiles that might be
launched in Turkey’s direction.’

`Whatever the source, it’s part of the NATO system and is inherently a
defensive system,’ he said.
Sanctions against Iran

On Iran, Ricciardone said the only way to deal with Iran’s
controversial nuclear program was to push it to cooperate with the
International Atomic Energy Agency through diplomatic tools, namely
sanctions.
While noting that they understood that Turkey did not feel obliged to
enforce unilateral sanctions by the U.S. or the European Union,
Ricciardone said they were satisfied with Turkish banks and companies
response to those measures.

`We are satisfied that so far Turkey’s banks ¦ and companies are
paying close attention to the EU and the U.S. diplomatic efforts to
show Iran it has a positive choice or a negative choice. And we hope
that Turkish companies will continue to pay close attention to those
things. And I think Turkish government will do nothing to discourage
them,’ he said.

On whether the U.S. would think about an intervention into Syria, the
envoy said, `[The U.S.] is not at this time preparing any kind of
intervention and that it would be better to first see how the Arab
League and the United Nations will take the matter.’
January/27/2012

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Today’s Zaman, Turkey
Jan 27 2012

OSCE representative hopeful French court will undo legislative mistake

27 January 2012 / SEYÄ°T ARSLAN, VIENNA

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
representative Dunja Mijatovic has reiterated the organization’s
concern about a French bill that makes it a crime to deny the killing
of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 constituted genocide in France,
saying the bill could have negative global impacts on freedom of
expression.

Following her visit to Turkey in mid-December, Mijatovic, the OSCE
representative for freedom of the media, told Today’s Zaman in an
interview of her positive experience during her first visit to Turkey
in her current position. Underlining that she was welcomed with `open
doors’ by Turkey and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet DavutoÄ?lu, she
noted that there was an excellent cooperation from Turkey, and that
she was able to attend all meetings she wanted to, and visit jailed
journalists, which she regarded as a big step in enlarging freedoms of
media in the country.

During the interview, Mijatovic informed Today’s Zaman about her
initiative regarding the French bill that is about to become a law,
waiting on the final signature from French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
`One of our tools is early warning, before the legislation is
adopted,’ she stated, noting that she resorted to `quiet diplomacy’
and got in contact with the chairperson of the French National
Assembly, and later went public with an announcement that the bill
runs risk of breaching the freedom of expression and press freedom. `I
asked Senate not to adopt the law, but they adopted it,’ she added.

`I am in contact with French officials, and I do hope, even at this
very late stage, there are still chances that they might listen to the
voice of civil society,’ she said in the hope that calls on the French
parliament that the bill is unconstitutional take effect.

`In this position I hope that the French Constitutional Court will
realize that this is a mistake and can have negative impacts on free
speech globally,’ she added in a belief that there is still chance the
law could be retracted. `I am monitoring at moment how my office can
engage in order to change this negative trend,’ she said. Mijatovic
also noted that the French bill was one of the many similar cases
monitored by OSCE, and that restrictions on freedom of speech occur
very frequent.

Mijatovic also gave her insight on worldwide attempts at blocking
access to the Internet by governments, saying that it was `a battle
already lost,’ and what governments are trying to achieve by blocking
Internet freedom would `come back like a boomerang.’ `Instead,
governments could work on increasing Internet literacy,’ she advised,
in order to fight terrorism or sexual abuse, which find large venues
on the Internet.

Earlier in December, when the bill passed through the lower house of
the French Parliament, Mijatovic stated that the bill could `set a
precedent internationally for politically construed, ad-hoc
criminalization of public debates.’ Mijatovic had also said she feared
the passing of this law by a nation with a great history of press
freedom might prompt other countries in the OSCE region to follow
France’s example and similarly criminalize historical statements in
violation of their OSCE commitments that aim at encouraging a free
discussion on issues of public interest. Mijatovic said she had hoped
the French senate would vote down the bill.

From: Baghdasarian

, Turkey
Jan 27 2012

No sanctions on French firms: Turkey

Caglayan said that all investors including French ones in Turkey were
“Turkish companies”.

Turkish Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan on Friday said that “We will
not impose sanctions against French companies in Turkey”.

Caglayan said that “all investors including French ones in Turkey were
Turkish companies”.

Speaking to reporters after a closed door meeting with French
businesspeople on Friday, Caglayan said that he listened to French
business executives who have hired thousands of Turks and contributed
to Turkey’s exports.

“Everyone at today’s meeting agreed that the adoption of an Armenian
bill at the French Senate on Monday did not represent the thoughts of
the French people. The French businesspeople told us that the French
Senate’s decision was one with which they did not agree with,”
Caglayan said.

The Armenian bill adopted at the French Senate reflects a populist
approach. I believe that the human wisdom would prevail over populism,
Caglayan also said.

AA

From: Baghdasarian

Glendale News Press, CA
JAn 26 2012

City turns down art donation for first time in 10 years

Painting has ‘beautiful theme’ but isn’t inclusive enough, officials decide.

January 26, 2012|By Brittany Levine, [email protected]

An oil painting featuring the Statue of Liberty surrounded by the
floating heads of popular Armenian figures recently became the first
donated work of art to the city in more than a decade to be turned
down.

The painting also includes flowing wheat and Mt. Ararat – a
snow-capped mountain in Turkey where, according to biblical lore,
Noah’s Ark came to rest. The mountain can be seen from Armenia and
Iran.

The work also features a statue of an Armenian princess.

While one commissioner called it `a beautiful theme,’ the painting
failed to make it past the Arts & Culture Commission or City Council
and onto a city-owned office wall – the first time that’s happened
since 2000, said Public Art Project Manager Ripsime Marashian.

`It was deeply embedded in one culture, but it was not very
inclusive,’ said Arts Commissioner Arlette DerHovanessian at a meeting
last month. `Otherwise it was a beautiful theme.’

According to a staff report, the 18-by-24 inch painting, appraised at
$1,800, also wasn’t of the highest aesthetic quality.

The artist, Anita Garouni, is an Iranian immigrant with Armenian
ancestry who has lived in Glendale for 15 years. She told the
commission that her painting, titled `Home,’ represents the love she
feels for the United States and her Armenian culture.

`It’s an expression of deep gratitude for America, my country, who
accepts all…and gives safe haven for the immigrants of the world,’
Garouni said.

Commissioner Razmik Grigorian said he understood the painting was
about both Garouni’s ancestral and adopted home, but he wished it was
more about the latter than the former.

Marashian said the city’s decision-making process for accepting
donated art includes considering the work’s relation to the city,
maintenance requirements and aesthetics.

Since 2000, the city has received 10 donated pieces of art, including
Garouni’s. Most have been paintings, Marashian said.

The last accepted art donation was in 2008. The sculpture, which was
made public last year, represents the helmet and coat of a Glendale
firefighter who suffered burns over more than 70% of his body while
battling a fire nearly 15 years ago.

In 2003, the city accepted two donated paintings by artist Zadik
Zadikian of a 1940s police car and an old police shield. Zadikian had
offered the city a third similar painting, but he wanted $20,000 for
it, so the city passed on the offer.

Grigorian said he hoped the rejection of Garouni’s painting didn’t
deter other artists from donating to the city.

`Just one little exception should not really discourage other people,’ he said.

The city also plans to unveil an arts-focused website in coming months
that will hopefully spur additional donations, Marashian said.

`It’s been very slow,’ she said. `We love to encourage art. We don’t
want anyone to be discouraged.’

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CURBING FREE SPEECH WORKS AGAINST TRUTH

The Australian

Jan 28 2012

by: Brendan O’Neill From: The Australian January 28, 2012 12:00AM

AS of this week, it is against the law in France to say: “I don’t
think the Turks committed genocide against the Armenians.”

Under a new act, passed by the French Senate on Monday, anyone who
denies or “minimises” the genocide suffered by the Armenians at the
hands of the Ottoman Turks in 1915 could be jailed for one year or
fined ~@45,000 ($55,500).

A government minister says the act is part of a drive to “repress
racist and xenophobic statements”. That is, the French government is
mainly concerned with preserving the safety and self-esteem of its
population of 600,000 ethnic Armenians.

A senator in France’s upper house who voted for the act says it is
also about establishing the truth in the face of “continuing denial
of a tragic historical event”. Who could be opposed to the desire of
the French state to protect its Armenian population from hurt feelings
and its commitment to the project of affirming the truth about history?

…Well, I am. I’m against this massively illiberal law, which is a
disgrace to 21st-century Europe and particularly to that birthplace
of modern liberty, France. Whatever the backers of the act might tell
us, the truth is their speech-curbing piece of legislation will do
nothing to establish historical truth or improve cultural attitudes
towards Armenian people.

As it happens, I believe that what the Turks did to the Armenians
during and after World War I was a genocide. From 1915 to the early
1920s, between one million and 1.5 million Armenians were either
massacred or marched to their deaths by Ottoman Turkish forces. In
some parts of the empire, entire Armenian populations were destroyed.

However, there’s still great scope for debate about the nature and
the naming of these tragic events. For example, many people mistakenly
see the Armenian genocide as a neat precursor to the Jewish Holocaust
of World War II. They tend to read history backwards, projecting the
terminology of the Holocaust on to the events of 1915, so that we
end up being presented with two samey events from a pretty warped
century in human affairs.

Some even refer to the “Armenian Holocaust” of the 1910s.

But there are great differences between the Armenian genocide and
the Jewish Holocaust, not only in terms of scale but also in terms
of intent.

It unquestionably involved the brutal wiping out of huge numbers
of an ethnic group, but it lacked the design of the Nazi plan to
liquidate every Jew on Earth. It was a brutal assault on a people,
a genocide, but was it part of a carefully worked-out program of
industrial extermination?

Historians must be free to raise questions such as that without the
threat of being hauled before the courts for “minimising” Armenian
suffering.

As the Socialist Party senator Jean-Pierre Sueur said, as he voted
against the act, “it isn’t the business of the law, and especially
criminal law, to intervene in the field of history and to rule in
terms of historical truth”.

Indeed. Such clumsy and censorious state intervention into matters of
historical interest do not help to clarify issues, far less get at the
truth; rather they make things more cloudy, discouraging researchers
from openly speaking their minds for fear of having their collars
felt by the cops.

John Stuart Mill, that great English defender of freedom of speech,
argued more than 150 years ago that truth can be established only
through testy debate in the public arena.

In his fiery 1859 pamphlet On Liberty, he said: “Complete liberty of
contradicting and disproving our opinion is the very condition which
justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.” In short,
it is only by submitting your ideas or beliefs to the rigours of public
discussion and ridicule that you can be sure they are correct, true,
right. If you erect a moral or legal force-field around your theory,
denying anyone the chance to pick it apart, then it isn’t “the truth”;
it’s a prejudice, a received wisdom, which you cleave to more out of
habit than conviction.

The French government hasn’t established the truth of the Armenian
genocide; it has turned the Armenian genocide into a state religion
that you question at your peril.

As to the claim that this law will help improve cultural relations,
the opposite seems to be the case. It has provoked huge tensions
between France and Turkey (which denies it committed a genocide
against Armenians) and it has angered Turkish people living in France.

There have been hot-headed protests against the law, mainly by
young French-Turks who feel their people are being singled out for
a censorious slap on the wrists by the French state.

The end result of this legal instrument to control what people can
think and say is that some communities feel relieved (the Armenians)
but others feel aggrieved (the Turks). By turning a historic event
into a contemporary flash-point issue, France is stoking up tensions,
not combating xenophobia. The whole debacle demonstrates the extent
to which genocide has been politicised in recent years.

The motivation of Nicolas Sarkozy and his party in pushing the
Armenia genocide law is really to garner support at home, not just
among Armenians but also among native French people concerned about
Turkey’s demand for more influence in Europe, and also to look tough
abroad, to appear uncompromising in relation to increasingly powerful
Eastern states.

Such cynical politicisation of a historical event has come with a
very high price: the denigration of free thought, the straitjacketing
of academic debate, and the intensification of West-East tensions in
this supposedly modern Europe.

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THE RIGHT TO THINK STUPID THOUGHTS
Ky Krauthamer

Transitions OnLine

Jan 27 2012

The timing for today’s blog is not what I would have wished. Today is
Holocaust Memorial Day, a day earmarked for remembrance of the Nazis’
mass killings of Jews, Roma, and other unwanted groups, and of other
state-sponsored genocides in modern history.

The reason I’m writing about genocide today is different. It’s a
response to the French Senate’s vote earlier this week to criminalize
denial of officially recognized genocides.

As RFE’s Charles Recknagel pointed out, the bill – which President
Sarkozy says he will soon sign into law – is not specifically about
the Armenian genocide, although that’s how most media have reported
it. The law makes it a crime for French citizens to deny an act
officially recognized by the French state as a genocide.

My first thought is to wonder how one legally defines “denial.” My
second thought is, no state should have the right to create truth by
decree: “Officially, X occurred. X was a terrible thing. Therefore,
denial of X should be a crime.” This is intellectual Stalinism, with
the best of intentions of course. I think this law is uncivilized and
unworthy of the French tradition of rationalism. Whether it will ease
or exacerbate relations between Turkey and Armenia, I don’t know,
and although I have a good deal of sympathy with the Armenian point
of view, I still think the law should be scotched.

This is where I start to get uncomfortable, because the same line
of argument must lead me to support dismantling of all laws against
genocide denial, including the Nazi Holocaust. Unlike the Armenian
case, the Jewish Holocaust touches me personally, since my father’s
family were Hungarian Jews who came to America in the early 20th
century. I don’t know of any family members who died in the Holocaust,
but I’ve been told that a distant relative lived through World War
II in Budapest.

A number of European countries have laws criminalizing denial of the
Nazi Holocaust or other genocides. The professional Holocaust denier
David Irving is a despicable writer. I felt hardly a pang of sympathy
when an Austrian court sent him to jail, yet at the same time I could
not bring myself to feel that justice had been done.

There is a legal exit to this conundrum of what do when freedom
of expression laws seemingly permit speech meant to damage another
person’s or group’s dignity. It’s to punish speech when it demonstrably
contributes to violence or discrimination. The EU does this in its law
on racism and xenophobia. The 2007 decision makes certain kinds of
“intentional conduct” punishable in all EU member states (although
there is a partial opt-out).

This conduct may include: “Publicly inciting to violence or hatred,
even by dissemination or distribution of tracts, pictures or other
material, directed against a group of persons or a member of such
a group defined by reference to race, colour, religion, descent or
national or ethnic origin.” (My italics.)

Regrettably, the law also punishes “Publicly condoning, denying or
grossly trivialising” acts recognized as genocide, crimes against
humanity, or war crimes by the International Criminal Court and the
Nuremberg Tribunal. Surely the first clause is more than sufficiently
robust to punish the most atrocious genocide deniers, by linking speech
to concrete, intentional acts? There is no need to open a legal can
of worms by banning public expression of opinion, which is what the
second clause does.

The photo shows an old view of Sivas, a city in Turkey whose Armenian
inhabitants were expelled in 1915. Source:

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A TALE OF TWO GIFT BASKETS
Ian Bremmer

Foreign Policy

Jan 26 2012

When I got to my Davos hotel room, I was greeted by two gifts. One
was to be expected: greetings from the CEO of Nestle along with boxed
chocolates. Thoroughly Swiss and thoroughly appreciated.

The second? The most politically controversial gift I have ever
received.

The Heydar Aliyev Foundation, run by Azerbaijan’s First Lady Mehriban
Aliyeva, supplied guests with a CD set, dubbed the Voices of Garabagh.

It wasn’t until I opened up the package and read on that I saw what
it was driving at. It was a statement regarding the Garabagh region
between Azerbaijan and Armenia, delivered from a starkly one-sided
point of view:

“Unfortunately the conflict ignited as a result of unfair territorial
claims brought against Azerbaijan. The occupation by Armenian invaders
of Garabagh… [has] turned the bright representatives of the Mugham
art into internally displaced people… grief, sorrow, and melancholy
is being felt today in their performance.”

The package was giftwrapped in cellophane, so it was sure to be missed
by any personnel intent on keeping such subjective perspective out of
the hotel rooms. You have to hand it to this Azeri organization for
so craftily injecting their thoughts into the summit. The takeaway:
Davos truly is the biggest annual global political event — and you
can’t underestimate how far actors will go to get their message heard
on the global stage.

There are, of course, more technological and readily available
avenues for communication that are boosting the reach and immediacy
of messages around the world. This is a theme I’ll continue to discuss
in conjunction with global democratic trends.

Mugham melancholia notwithstanding, I have yet to make time for the
CD itself — Davos has done its best to keep me busy. And I’ll do my
best to keep you posted.

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YEREVAN MAYOR AND ARMENIAN POLICE CHIEF DISCUSS COOPERATION OF TWO STRUCTURES

news.am
January 27, 2012 | 19:08

YEREVAN. – During a consultation held by Yerevan city Mayor Taron
Margaryan and Armenian police chief Vladimir Gasparyan questions
concerning the cooperation of local authorities and the police were
discussed.

Administrative heads of Yerevan’s districts, police officers and heads
of Yerevan police department and local departments also participated
in the consultation, the press service of Yerevan city hall informs
Armenian News-NEWS.am.

The mayor stressed the importance of cooperation in the framework of
the ‘Safe city’ program, which is directed towards providing security
and comfort for the citizens.

The police chief mentioned that it is also important to include the
public and different NGO’s in providing security for the city.

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RUSSIA NOT TO SUPPORT UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON SYRIA

news.am
January 27, 2012 | 17:32

MOSCOW. – Russia considers calls for Bashar al-Asad’s voluntary
surrender unacceptable, Russian deputy FM Gennady Gatilov told
Interfax commenting on the draft resolution to be discussed in the
UN Security Council.

According to him, any decision on further political regulations in
Syria should be made through political processes without imposing
pre-conditions. Demands calling for Asad’s voluntary surrender is
a pre-condition, he said adding that Russia will not support the
draft resolution.

Armenian News-NEWS.am has earlier informed that the UN Security
Council will hold a closed session on Syria on January 28 to discuss
the draft resolution prepared by the League of Arab States.

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ARMENIAN PRIVATE KILLED INTENTIONALLY, NEW TESTIMONY SHOWS

TODAY’S ZAMAN
27 January 2012

A young man of Armenian descent who was killed while serving in
the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) as a conscripted private, which was
initially believed to be an accident, is likely a hate crime committed
because of the victim’s ethnic background, new testimony from another
private indicates.

Pvt. Sevag Å~^ahin Balıkcı was shot dead on April 24, 2011 — the
date the Armenian Diaspora has chosen to commemorate the incidents of
1915 when hundreds of Armenians were killed in the Ottoman Empire. The
other privates in his unit, stationed in Batman province, and other
officers testified that Balıkcı was shot accidentally when he
was “joking around” with a close friend, Kıvanc Agaoglu. However,
according to a report published in the Sabah daily on Friday, one of
the privates who witnessed the incident changed his testimony, which
will likely change the course of the trial of Agaoglu, the shooter.

The revised testimony was given in late December, according to Sabah’s
report. It wasn’t clear why there were no reports on it earlier.

Halil EkÅ~_i, who served in the military during the same period as
Sevag Balıkcı, in his revised testimony said, “Kıvanc pointed his
rifle at Sevag and pulled the trigger. His family had asked me to
testify in his favor,” indicating that Agaoglu’s family pressured
him into not describing what really happened.

They were serving at the Kozluk GumuÅ~_göru Gendarmerie Station at
the time of the murder.

The investigators in the initial stage of the probe were trying
to understand whether Balıkcı was really the victim of a hapless
accident or a murder committed with full intent. According to the
soldiers’ account, Balıkcı was shot by Agaoglu when they were
installing a chain-link fence around the gendarmerie station.

The family, mainly based on suspicions arising from the date of the
murder, had earlier filed criminal charges against Agaoglu claiming he
had wanted to kill their son and knew what he was doing when he fired
his rifle. Agaoglu’s lawyers asserted that their client was a very
close friend of Balıkcı, and his rifle fired by accident. Earlier
testimony from EkÅ~_i supported this statement. However, EkÅ~_i, who
testified once again on Dec. 27, 2011, said he wanted to change his
initial testimony. He said he did not see the suspect playing around
with the rifle and noted that Agaoglu’s uncle, Bulent Kaya, had visited
him in his hometown and in fact wrote his initial testimony with
him. He gave his first testimony on Sept. 9, 2011, in an Aydın court
after he was summoned. It wasn’t clear why he changed his testimony,
but the Balıkcı family lawyers had requested to hear him again on
the grounds that they weren’t present during the first testimony. This
is why EkÅ~_i was summoned once again by the Aydın 1st Criminal Court.

In his latest account, EkÅ~_i told the judge hearing his testimony:
“I was told by suspect Kıvanc and his family, especially his
uncle, to testify in his favor. On the day of the incident, we were
installing chain-link fencing around the station under orders from our
commanders. As we did our work, at some point, Kıvanc Agaoglu unlocked
his rifle’s safety and directed it at our other friend Sevag Å~^ahin.

And he fired the rifle. This way, Sevag Å~^ahin was wounded. I do
not know why Kıvanc fired at Sevag.”

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