Turks protest at Armenian forum
Sep 24th 2005, 9:40 pm
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Turks protest at Armenian forum
Turks protest at Armenian forum
Resistance to a free debate on the issue is still strong in Turkey
Hundreds of Turkish nationalists have been protesting outside a
controversial conference on the mass killings of Armenians under
Ottoman rule.
They chanted slogans and booed delegates entering Istanbul's Bilgi
University for the two-day event.
The conference had been due to open on Friday, at another venue, but
was stopped from doing so by a court order.
Debate of the killings has been taboo in Turkey but there is outside
pressure for greater freedom of speech.
"Treason will not go unpunished" and "This is Turkey, love it or leave
it," shouted the demonstrators.
"The Armenian genocide is an international lie," read a huge banner
carried by members of the minor left-wing Workers' Party.
Taped mouths
Armenians worldwide have been campaigning for decades for the deaths -
thought to have been more than a million, around the time of WWI - to
be recognised universally as genocide.
The conference discussing the issue was due to be held at Istanbul's
Bosphorus University, but it was banned by an Istanbul court after
complaints by nationalists that the historians behind it were
"traitors".
"If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom
of thought" Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Prime Minister
The historians challenge official Turkish accounts of the killings,
which give a much smaller death toll and link Armenian losses to civil
strife in which many Turks also died.
The court ruling brought emotionally charged scenes on the Bosphorus
campus on Friday, said the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Istanbul.
Students, angry that the conference was cancelled, taped their mouths
while small groups of nationalists gathered to condemn plans for the
forum.
EU condemnation
Bilgi University stepped in "in the name of freedom of expression and
thought", said its president, Aydin Ugur.
Government leaders regretted the court ruling which "cast a shadow on
the process of democratisation and freedoms", according to Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
"If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom
of thought," he told separate gathering of academics on Saturday.
EU enlargement commissioner Krisztina Nagy said Brussels strongly
deplored the court's "attempt to prevent the Turkish society from
discussing its history".
Turkey begins talks on joining the EU in two weeks' time.
Resistance to a free debate on the issue is still strong in Turkey
Hundreds of Turkish nationalists have been protesting outside a
controversial conference on the mass killings of Armenians under
Ottoman rule.
They chanted slogans and booed delegates entering Istanbul's Bilgi
University for the two-day event.
The conference had been due to open on Friday, at another venue, but
was stopped from doing so by a court order.
Debate of the killings has been taboo in Turkey but there is outside
pressure for greater freedom of speech.
"Treason will not go unpunished" and "This is Turkey, love it or leave
it," shouted the demonstrators.
"The Armenian genocide is an international lie," read a huge banner
carried by members of the minor left-wing Workers' Party.
Taped mouths
Armenians worldwide have been campaigning for decades for the deaths -
thought to have been more than a million, around the time of WWI - to
be recognised universally as genocide.
The conference discussing the issue was due to be held at Istanbul's
Bosphorus University, but it was banned by an Istanbul court after
complaints by nationalists that the historians behind it were
"traitors".
"If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom
of thought" Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Prime Minister
The historians challenge official Turkish accounts of the killings,
which give a much smaller death toll and link Armenian losses to civil
strife in which many Turks also died.
The court ruling brought emotionally charged scenes on the Bosphorus
campus on Friday, said the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Istanbul.
Students, angry that the conference was cancelled, taped their mouths
while small groups of nationalists gathered to condemn plans for the
forum.
EU condemnation
Bilgi University stepped in "in the name of freedom of expression and
thought", said its president, Aydin Ugur.
Government leaders regretted the court ruling which "cast a shadow on
the process of democratisation and freedoms", according to Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
"If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom
of thought," he told separate gathering of academics on Saturday.
EU enlargement commissioner Krisztina Nagy said Brussels strongly
deplored the court's "attempt to prevent the Turkish society from
discussing its history".
Turkey begins talks on joining the EU in two weeks' time.
Sep 24th 2005, 10:03 pm
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Re: Turks protest at Armenian forum
> Turks protest at Armenian forum
> Resistance to a free debate on the issue is still strong in Turkey
> Hundreds of Turkish nationalists have been protesting outside a
> controversial conference on the mass killings of Armenians under
> Ottoman rule.
> They chanted slogans and booed delegates entering Istanbul's Bilgi
> University for the two-day event.
A bit more than that:
<http://www.iran-bulletin.org/Orhan%20Pamuk.htm>
<http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/68998/>
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> Resistance to a free debate on the issue is still strong in Turkey
> Hundreds of Turkish nationalists have been protesting outside a
> controversial conference on the mass killings of Armenians under
> Ottoman rule.
> They chanted slogans and booed delegates entering Istanbul's Bilgi
> University for the two-day event.
A bit more than that:
<http://www.iran-bulletin.org/Orhan%20Pamuk.htm>
<http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/68998/>
============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ==============
Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975
stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557
Sep 25th 2005, 7:50 am
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Re: Turks protest at Armenian forum
Strictly nothing to do with travelling.
Awww you miss your old evleth, don't you...
<[email protected]> a �crit dans le message de news:
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> Turks protest at Armenian forum
> Resistance to a free debate on the issue is still strong in Turkey
> Hundreds of Turkish nationalists have been protesting outside a
> controversial conference on the mass killings of Armenians under
> Ottoman rule.
> They chanted slogans and booed delegates entering Istanbul's Bilgi
> University for the two-day event.
> The conference had been due to open on Friday, at another venue, but
> was stopped from doing so by a court order.
> Debate of the killings has been taboo in Turkey but there is outside
> pressure for greater freedom of speech.
> "Treason will not go unpunished" and "This is Turkey, love it or leave
> it," shouted the demonstrators.
> "The Armenian genocide is an international lie," read a huge banner
> carried by members of the minor left-wing Workers' Party.
> Taped mouths
> Armenians worldwide have been campaigning for decades for the deaths -
> thought to have been more than a million, around the time of WWI - to
> be recognised universally as genocide.
> The conference discussing the issue was due to be held at Istanbul's
> Bosphorus University, but it was banned by an Istanbul court after
> complaints by nationalists that the historians behind it were
> "traitors".
> "If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom
> of thought" Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Prime Minister
> The historians challenge official Turkish accounts of the killings,
> which give a much smaller death toll and link Armenian losses to civil
> strife in which many Turks also died.
> The court ruling brought emotionally charged scenes on the Bosphorus
> campus on Friday, said the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Istanbul.
> Students, angry that the conference was cancelled, taped their mouths
> while small groups of nationalists gathered to condemn plans for the
> forum.
> EU condemnation
> Bilgi University stepped in "in the name of freedom of expression and
> thought", said its president, Aydin Ugur.
> Government leaders regretted the court ruling which "cast a shadow on
> the process of democratisation and freedoms", according to Prime
> Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
> "If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom
> of thought," he told separate gathering of academics on Saturday.
> EU enlargement commissioner Krisztina Nagy said Brussels strongly
> deplored the court's "attempt to prevent the Turkish society from
> discussing its history".
> Turkey begins talks on joining the EU in two weeks' time.
>
Awww you miss your old evleth, don't you...
<[email protected]> a �crit dans le message de news:
[email protected]. com...
> Turks protest at Armenian forum
> Resistance to a free debate on the issue is still strong in Turkey
> Hundreds of Turkish nationalists have been protesting outside a
> controversial conference on the mass killings of Armenians under
> Ottoman rule.
> They chanted slogans and booed delegates entering Istanbul's Bilgi
> University for the two-day event.
> The conference had been due to open on Friday, at another venue, but
> was stopped from doing so by a court order.
> Debate of the killings has been taboo in Turkey but there is outside
> pressure for greater freedom of speech.
> "Treason will not go unpunished" and "This is Turkey, love it or leave
> it," shouted the demonstrators.
> "The Armenian genocide is an international lie," read a huge banner
> carried by members of the minor left-wing Workers' Party.
> Taped mouths
> Armenians worldwide have been campaigning for decades for the deaths -
> thought to have been more than a million, around the time of WWI - to
> be recognised universally as genocide.
> The conference discussing the issue was due to be held at Istanbul's
> Bosphorus University, but it was banned by an Istanbul court after
> complaints by nationalists that the historians behind it were
> "traitors".
> "If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom
> of thought" Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Prime Minister
> The historians challenge official Turkish accounts of the killings,
> which give a much smaller death toll and link Armenian losses to civil
> strife in which many Turks also died.
> The court ruling brought emotionally charged scenes on the Bosphorus
> campus on Friday, said the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Istanbul.
> Students, angry that the conference was cancelled, taped their mouths
> while small groups of nationalists gathered to condemn plans for the
> forum.
> EU condemnation
> Bilgi University stepped in "in the name of freedom of expression and
> thought", said its president, Aydin Ugur.
> Government leaders regretted the court ruling which "cast a shadow on
> the process of democratisation and freedoms", according to Prime
> Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
> "If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom
> of thought," he told separate gathering of academics on Saturday.
> EU enlargement commissioner Krisztina Nagy said Brussels strongly
> deplored the court's "attempt to prevent the Turkish society from
> discussing its history".
> Turkey begins talks on joining the EU in two weeks' time.
>
