Civil Rights
Feb. 16, 2007
Turkey's People Grapple With Unjust Law
Forum Column - By Itir Yakar - In January, an Armenian journalist in Turkey was murdered on the streets of Istanbul after being convicted of "insulting Turkishness" for writing about the Ottoman genocide of the Armenians. This insult to the dignity of Turkey's people drew 100,000 people onto the city's streets in protest.
By Itir Yakar
Growing up in Turkey until the age of 15, I didn't know any Armenians.
In fact, it wasn't until I moved to the United States and became a minority myself that I learned about my home country's rich yet uneasy ethnic and religious makeup.
When I came here I knew two things about Armenians. One was a familiar Turkish sound bi...
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