В Ереване арестован турецкий ученый

[DIXIT]

Какие вредные люди , у нации горе книжку хотели стыбзить ,а они хаха ... хотя есть огромный повод для хи хи и хаха .. Кстати люди вы хотя бы раз смотрели на Национальном первом канале армении передачу 02 ? каждую неделю ровно в 23.00 по понедельникам ,, я смотрю своююююююю любимую передачку и от рыдаю от смеха .. трагическим голосом диктор с примесью драматизма извешает о кражах проволок от 2 кг до 20 .. о кражах 3 кур и 1 барашка .. и главное он это делает с выражением полного серьеза .типа мы боремся с преступностью :unsure: Вот это круто )

[CheZZaria]

А античность это у них какой век считается :hm: :lol:

[sikim]

Товарищ с@м! Настоятельная просьба прекратить постить эту муру. Займитесь чем нибудь более содержательным.

Модератор

[Semetoja]

Wir

Этого... м-м-м-м... юзера с интимным ником надо бы забаннить...

[Злодиюка]

А потом перевернуть и еще раз забанить

[Semetoja]

Scholar's arrest fuels diplomatic dispute; Turkish man is held on Armenian charges

By Catherine Collins, Special to the Tribune.

587 words

22 June 2005

Chicago Tribune

Chicago Final

8

English

Copyright 2005, Chicago Tribune. All Rights Reserved.

ISTANBUL

The arrest of a Duke University doctoral student last week on charges of trying to smuggle rare books out of Armenia has stirred concerns among academics and officials and illustrates the quagmire of Turkish-Armenian relations.

The student, Yektan Turkyilmaz, was the first Turkish citizen ever given access to the Armenian national archives. He had just concluded his fourth research trip there Friday when he was arrested before boarding a plane at the airport in Yerevan, the Armenian capital.

Armen Yeganian of the Armenian Embassy in Washington described the case as a customs violation and said Turkyilmaz had several books dating back as far as the 17th Century. But Turkyilmaz's family and academic associates said a researcher of his caliber never would try to steal priceless books.

Because Turkey and Armenia do not have diplomatic relations, Turkyilmaz initially landed in a diplomatic no-man's land. University officials and the U.S. and Turkish governments have taken up his cause, and Turkey on Tuesday officially requested Turkyilmaz's release.

"I believe this case is fundamentally about academic freedom," said his academic adviser, Orin Starn, a cultural anthropology professor at Duke University.

Starn described Turkyilmaz, 33, as "a brilliant and widely respected young scholar" who has received numerous fellowships to support his research into nationalism among Turks, Armenians and Kurds in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire.

His family has not been able to contact Turkyilmaz, though they have spoken with his friends in Armenia, some of whom were detained and interrogated, said his sister, Zeynep.

Turkyilmaz's case is the latest episode in a long-running diplomatic dispute about what happened to hundreds of thousands of Armenians in Turkey between 1915 and 1922.

Armenians say that Turkey's mass deportation of Armenians during World War I was part of an organized genocide that killed 1.5 million people. Turkey denies there was any systematic attempt to kill Armenians.

The Turkish State Archive recently issued a list of more than 523,000 Turks it says were killed by Armenians the same years.

Regardless, it is a dark chapter in Turkish history that until recently has been discussed rarely and left out of Turkish textbooks while landing many scholars, journalists and activists in jail.

Turkey's best-known novelist, Orhan Pamuk, shattered a taboo earlier this year when he said that 1 million Armenians were murdered in his country. Days of screaming headlines, death threats and several lawsuits charging him with insulting the Turkish state followed his statement.

Turkey has for years engaged in diplomatic scuffles with any country it suspects of taking the Armenian side. This spring, the Turkish parliament demanded apologies from the legislatures of the 12 countries that have recognized Armenian claims of genocide.

Gradually, however, partly as a result of efforts to join the European Union, a door on the past has been opened.

Although Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul insists that the genocide label is "pure slander," Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on all countries to open archives to scholars to determine once and for all what has happened.

A spokesman at the Turkish Foreign Ministry said he is baffled by the arrest.

"This is a very strange situation," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "From what we know of Turkyilmaz's research, it seems he was more sympathetic to the Armenian view than the Turkish."

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