Armenian apology campaign initiators may face trial
The High Criminal Court in the Sincan district of Ankara annulled the prosecutors' office ruling on Monday, NTV reported.
The prosecutors' office in Ankara in January had ruled against demands for the criminal prosecution of some 200 Turkish intellectuals who launched a website issuing an apology to Armenians for the Genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.
"There has been no need for criminal prosecution on the legal grounds that opposing opinions are also protected under freedom of thought in democratic societies," the prosecutors' office said in its ruling after completing its investigation regarding a petition calling for the organizers of the apology campaign to be charged of "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK).
The prosecutors' office in Ankara in January had ruled against demands for the criminal prosecution of some 200 Turkish intellectuals who launched a website issuing an apology to Armenians for the Genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.
"There has been no need for criminal prosecution on the legal grounds that opposing opinions are also protected under freedom of thought in democratic societies," the prosecutors' office said in its ruling after completing its investigation regarding a petition calling for the organizers of the apology campaign to be charged of "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK).
