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Turkish Publisher Faces 3 Years in
"Mustafa Barzani" Case
8.8.2006
By Erol ONDEROGLU
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Publishing House editor Ali Riza Vural faces 3 years
jail for publishing a 2-volume book on Iraqi Kurdish
leader Barzani. Publisher charged with "insulting
and ridiculing the Republic". Next hearing listed
for November 20 at Istanbul court.
BIA (Istanbul), August 8, - Doz Publishing House
editor Ali Riza Vural faces up to three years
imprisonment if found guilty on charges of
"insulting and ridiculing the Republic" by
publishing a two-volume book on Iraqi Kurdish leader
Mullah Mustafa Barzani and the Kurdish national
movement.
"Barzani and the Kurdish National Movement" was
originally published in February 2003 and an initial
court case launched against it was dismissed after a
change in the law. A new investigation was launched
after its second print in May 2005, which had led to
this case, which was launched on April 6.
Vural is to appear at court for his next hearing
listed for November 20 to be tried under article
301/2 of the Penal Code.
While the general content of the case is under
question, its references to Kurdish revolts during
in the early 20th century are subject to charges.
The book evolved around the life and memoirs of
Mullah Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) who was father of
current Kurdistan Democrat Party (KDP) leader
Massoud Barzani.
"The Kurds rebelled one after another" says a
section of the book. "They revolted against the
imperialists and the regional states that robbed
them of their rights. All of the uprisings were
crushed with violence, In Turkey, Mustafa Kemal
crushed the Kurds in a very hard way." |
Mustafa Barzani (Mulallah Mustafa), Former Iraqi
Kurdistan leader,
Photo:KURDNET Archive |
Continues the excerpt subject to charges:
"Whereas he, (modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal)
managed to create the Republic, kick the Greeks our
of Turkey's soil and have the allied forces
recognize the Turkish state through the Kurds. At
the beginning Mustafa Kemal was making generous
offers to the Kurds but when his feet stood strong,
he forgot all the promises he had given."
Another part of the book refers to the Armenian
migration in the region, a particularly sensitive
topic in Turkey and often subject to court cases
where expressed in a form that does not conform with
official history.
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