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Monday, December 26, 2005

TURKEY BRINGS ANOTHER CASE AGAINST AN ETHNIC ARMENIAN

"TURKEY BRINGS ANOTHER CASE AGAINST AN ETHNIC ARMENIAN

A Turkish court has opened a case against an Armenian-Turkish journalist for his comments on a six-month sentence it gave him earlier for denigrating Turkish identity, lawyers involved in bringing the case said Sunday. The Istanbul court was acting after a group of nationalist lawyers asked the court to file a case against Hrant Dink, editor in chief of the bilingual Turkish and Armenian weekly Agos, and three Agos journalists, saying that the journalists 'tried to influence the judiciary' through their editorials."

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