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Birdal's Armenian trial continues
The trial in which former Human Rights Association Chairman Akin Birdal has been accused of insulting the Turkish nation continued in Ankara yesterday. It was claimed that Birdal said during a conference in Germany that everyone knew what was done to the Armenians and that Turkey should apologize to all its minorities for the way they were treated.
While Birdal and his lawyer Sedat Aslantas attended the hearing in court, diplomats from the United States', German, Belgium and Danish embassies followed the trial as well.
The judge of the case, which is being carried out at No. 2 Higher Criminal
Court, Nuri Yilmaz, said they have not received an answer from the Office of
the Prosecutor to determine the address of the Gozcu daily newspaper's
correspondent, who reported Birdal's speech in Germany. Yilmaz postponed the
trial citing the lack of a response for the reporter's address.
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