Sections
: Poll
Do you like our new Site?
Turkey: Diyabakir Mayor acquitted of publishing invitation cards in Kurdish
Font size:
| DIYARBAKIR, Kurdish (Turkish.Daily.News) - The mayor of the southeastern Kurdish city of Diyarbakir Osman Baydemir was acquitted Tuesday of charges of publishing the 6th Culture and Art Festival's invitation cards in Kurdish, Zaza, English and Armenian in addition to Turkish, the Anatolia news agency reported. “Municipalities invite people to that kind of festival in languages other than Turkish,” said Diyarbakir Mayor Osman Baydemir's lawyer,www.ekurd.net Muharrem Erbey, in his defense. Many municipalities in Turkey organize that kind of festival, Erbey said and demanded Baydemir's acquittal, saying Baydemir's behavior illustrates his respect for Anatolian civilization. Baydemir, one of Turkey's most popular Kurdish politicians was tried for three-and-a-half years imprisonment on charges of “violating the prohibitions specified within the law on the Turkish alphabet and its applications,”www.ekurd.net according to article 222 of the Turkish penal code, and “misconduct in office” because he financed the cards from the municipality's budget. The court found Baydemir innocent on both counts and acquitted him. Meanwhile, Baydemir's trial on charges of talking in front of outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan's picture during a meeting in London is still ongoing in Diyarbakir. pna | ||
Add to:
del.icio.us |
Digg
del.icio.us |
Digg
Email to a friend
Print version
Plain textRate this article
Comments ( posted):
Post your comment