16 12 2008 - The Turkish civil society forces the hand of its government‏

The Turkish civil society forces the hand of its government‏
Da: Jean ECKIAN (jeaneckian@gmail.com)
Inviato: martedì 16 dicembre 2008 19.10.19
This is a fact without precedent in the history of Turkey. Thousands of Turkish people sign each day a petition launched by important Turkish personalities be sorry to the Armenians. « My conscience does not accept the insensitivity showed to and the denial of the Great Calamity that befell the Ottoman Armenians in 1915. I reject this injustice and for my share, I empathize with the feelings and pain of my Armenian brothers. I apologize to them. » known as part of the text signed as of its launching by the journalists Ece Temelkuran, Ali Bayramoglu, professors Baskin Oran, Ahmet Insel and Cengiz Aktar, writer Perihan Magden, mathematician Ali Nesin, sociologist Nilüfer Göle and the historian Fikret Adanir.


Thus, since the assassination of the journalist Hrant Dink, the threats physical on many intellectuals Turkish and the judgments pronounced under the terms of iniquitous article 301, the Turkish civil society decided to take the initiative since the visit of President Gul in Erevan on September 6, 2008.
In one day, the petition was signed by more than 8000 people.
Now, the question is to know, that will be the reaction of the Turkish government while the international press already seized this news.
Jean Eckian
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Jean Eckian