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Posted by pancho (Guest) - Tuesday, February 26 2008, 4:24:03 (CET)
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...you remember...the priest in Turkey who was charged with a crime in Turkey...by making the claim that Turks massacred thousands of Assyrians...remember him? Akhbulut...or somehting. A big fuss was made over his case too...and that oen backfired in our faces too...instead of being a bright shining hour for us it turned into a feather in Turkey's cap...in front of the entire "international community" no less.

...This priest, who was also peddled to the world as a hero and a martyr, spoke off the record about what he believes was a genocide etc....the two Turks he was speaking to informed on him and he was busted...a trial was set...and after hearing the case the court decided that he'd been speaking in confidence, off the record and not trying to reach the genral public...so they let him off. Seems to me they showed the world that in Turkey law and due process is alive and well.

...the government wasn't out to GET Akbulut..or persecute him. If that was their aim they would have nailed him regardles of nice legal technicalities like "criminal intent"...the idea that when he spoke, he spoke his BELIEFS in private..there was no INTENTION to break any government laws..since Turkey doesn't make your thoughts, or private conversations, criminal.

We're the ones that looked like dummies...we didn't win anything...and if Akbulut ever opens his mouth again and says those things in public, nothing we do will make any difference...because Turkey is well within its rights to set the laws it wants...after all, don't we say that if you don't like America, then LEAVE? "Go Back to Turkey", we say when one someone criticizes America..."go live in Saudi Arabia, if you don't like America"...I've been told that several times and that's just for expressing my opinion and breaking no laws....well, the same holds true for anyone in Turkey..if they find they don't like it there, don't like the laws..then LEAVE! No one will stop you...let Akbulut and Johnny come to America if they want freedom of speech...but be careful...sedition laws are alive and well here too.

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