Turks and Turkey is silenced with a penal code الأتراك بإداة الأرمن

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
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Publisher Ragıp Zarakolu faces jail over Armenia book
A Turkish publisher could receive a jail sentence on Wednesday of up to three years for insulting national identity under a law the European Union says unfairly restricts freedom of speech and wants scrapped.
"Tomorrow's hearing may bring a final verdict in my trial, which began in 2005. The prosecutor wants the maximum penalty," publisher Ragıp Zarakolu told Reuters on Tuesday. Prosecutors accuse Zarakolu of insulting Turkishness under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) for publishing a Turkish language translation of a book by London-based author George Jerjian called "The Truth Will Set Us Free." The book urges reconciliation between Turks and Armenians and covers the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I, a highly sensitive issue for Turkey. Armenia, backed by many Western historians, says as many as 1.5 million of its people suffered systematic genocide at the hands of the Turks at that time. Turkey denies there was genocide and says many Muslim Turks as well as Christian Armenians were killed in inter-ethnic conflict as the Ottoman Empire collapsed under pressure of war.
Affirming that the killings amounted to genocide is a criminal offense in Turkey. Nobel Literature Laureate Orhan Pamuk is among writers prosecuted for his comments on the events of 1915-16, though he was acquitted on a legal technicality.
"I am against all forms of restriction on free expression. ... I did not even write this book, but Turkish people have a right to know what Armenians think," said Zarakolu, head of Belge International Publishers. Zarakolu said he would appeal against any conviction. He has often been a target of Turkish prosecutors over the decades for his stance on freedom of expression and for publishing books the authorities have disapproved of."The government could have changed the law already. It is a very dangerous article. If accusations depict writers and journalists as traitors or enemies of Turkey, it is not so simple to be in front of Turkish public opinion," said Zarakolu."It opens the door to our being lynched or killed by ultranationalist gangs," he said, citing the example of prominent Turkish Armenian editor Hrant Dink who was shot dead in İstanbul in January by an ultranationalist youth. Dink had been handed a suspended jail sentence under Article 301 for his comments on the Armenian issue. Tens of thousands of people marched through İstanbul at his funeral to protest against ultranationalist violence.

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[GaroArmen]

XWAKURK

Hello How are you?I hope one day Kurds and Armenians will live next to each in peace and as indpentant countries.

I grew up in kuwait,til I was almost 17 years old,now usa.I have cousins in Lebanon,I also speak and read arabic and listen to arabic music.

[pineappledork]

fuck you you ignorant bastards. you don't know shit about Turkey and "Turkishness". All of the countries in the world, have a code like this one and nobody even cares about those. Just because Turkey is in political distress, it is now easier for other illiterate idiots to criticize this country. And this proves you weak. Go back to your own country and fucking leave Turkey alone.

[Gagikangelo]

turkishness is already an insult to human being...tell anyone who is not a turk, that he is turk he will be offended by being equalized with the turk...that law is a parody...

[Lolla21900]

welcome ya akhiiiiii

[XWAKURK]

Nice video..

GaroArmen Before u been in USA, have you been in LEBANON.. did u live there? because as i know there is too many Armenian ppl Settle in Lebanon,, when i see your favorite list contains Haifa wahbi and Fairooz thats why i asking?

Thanks