{"id":165197,"date":"2012-02-29T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T08:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=165197"},"modified":"2012-02-29T12:17:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T08:17:24","slug":"ngo-files-complaint-against-turkey-minister-for-supporting-racist-slogans-against-armenians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/29\/ngo-files-complaint-against-turkey-minister-for-supporting-racist-slogans-against-armenians.html","title":{"rendered":"NGO Files Complaint Against Turkey Minister for Supporting Racist Slogans Against Armenians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Association\u2019s (IHD) Istanbul branch filed a criminal complaint against Turkish Interior Relations Minister \u0130dris Naim \u015eahin, whom they claim supported the controversial slogans uttered against Armenians at Khojaly massacre demonstrations held in Istanbul on Feb. 26, the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/ngo-files-complaint-against-minister.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nID=14874&amp;NewsCatID=339\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Hurriyet Daily News<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Meral \u00c7\u0131ld\u0131r, the head of IHD\u2019s Istanbul branch, said Armenian-origin Turkish citizens called upon their association after the meeting, saying they felt themselves in danger and targeted. \u00c7\u0131ld\u0131r said \u015eahin\u2019s speech in the meeting area was open support for those who carried racist banners. The protest, which commemorated the Khojaly massacre in which hundreds of ethnic Azerbaijani civilians were killed, had staged some racist comments and slogans such as \u201cYou are all Armenians, you are all bastards.\u201d Another banner said \u201cToday Taksim, tomorrow Yerevan will be conquered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan said the banners consisting hate speech in the march were singular examples.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few marginal and singular banners carried in the protest cannot put our solidarity and sorrow into the shade. We will not forget the Khojaly massacre and we will not let them forget,\u201d Erdo\u011fan said in the group meeting of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>However, AKP deputy Ayhan Sefer \u00dcst\u00fcn, also the head of Turkish Parliament\u2019s Human Rights Research Sub-Commission, said those banners were racist and discriminative, daily Radikal reported yesterday. \u00dcst\u00fcn called on the prosecutors to investigate the march.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law is obvious. The ones who commit discrimination crimes must be punished. They [non-governmental organizations] demand us to prepare a bill against hate crimes, but firstly we need to implement the current law against those crimes,\u201d \u00dcst\u00fcn said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Association\u2019s (IHD) Istanbul branch filed a criminal complaint against Turkish Interior Relations Minister \u0130dris Naim \u015eahin, whom they&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[38744,38746,38745,10933,18768,16928,38748,38747,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}