168 Zham (Yerevan, Armenia)
August 11, 2005
Summarized by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Armenia Report
http://www.armenialiberty.org/press/press/en/2005/08/00A947D4-5BDB-4D87-8206-2DE054B462E8.asp

"By imprisoning [Turkish scholar] Yektan Turkyilmaz the Armenian 
authorities would alienate numerous friends of our people and deliver a 
big present to those who deny the Armenian Genocide," "168 Zham" says in 
a separate article. "Turkyilmaz did not kill anyone in the toilet of a 
famous Yerevan café, did not run over the mother of an infant girl. Nor 
did he beat up journalists under the noses of police officers. He simply 
took interest in the history of the Armenian people and in particular 
its old books. That, according to Armenian law-enforcement bodies, is a 
more serious sin than the above-mentioned crimes." The paper goes on to 
argue that Turkyilmaz's imprisonment would play into the hands of Ankara 
which would exploit it for its long-running denial of the genocide. 
"Instead of using Turkyilmaz's presence in Armenia for propaganda 
purposes, our authorities arrested him," it adds.

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(Anna Saghabalian)