HRANT DINQ ACCUSED OF 'INSULTING TURKS'
Hrant Dinq, editor of Istanbul-based Akos Armenian newspaper, was informed from Urfa Public Prosecutor’s Office that a suit has been instituted against him. If the charge brought against him is proved, he will be sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment.
Dinq said in the interview to Azg that he was charged with "Insulting the Turks." Particularly, Dinq said that during one of the conferences in Urfa, 2002, he complained about the word combination "my heroic nation" in the anthem of Turkey.
"I said that I am against this sentence, as it is nationalistic. Besides Turks, Greeks, Armenians and other nations also live in Turkey. I said that I am from a different nation and it is not easy for me to utter this word combination," Dinq said.
Hrant Dinq also spoke against the sentence "I am a Turk, I am honest and hard working," which the children pronounce in all the schools of Turkey before each lesson. "I said during the conference that I am an Armenian, I am no Turk, I am merely a Turkish citizen," he said in the interview to Azg.
Hrant Dinq doesn’t think that the suit instituted against him is connected with his activities. "It doesn’t concern the recent events. I don’t think this is a serious suit. Certainly, I can be charged but I am not guilty," he said. Mr. Dinq said that he is unlikely to leave for Urfa himself to participate in the trial. He will hire a lawyer, instead.
Particularly lately, when the talks on Turkey’s membership to EU became more active, Dinq is being invited to many conferences, including to those held in Europe. He is being cited in almost all the articles about the Armenian Genocide and the Turkish-Armenian relations published in the Western press.
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