11:06, November 29, 2012
A far-right Turkish group mostly active in the social media has been targeting Armenian schools, churches, foundations and individuals in Turkey as part of an anti-Armenian hate campaign according to a November 28 Today Zaman report.
Goksel Gulbey, chairman of the International Association to Fight Unfounded Armenian Allegations (ASIM-DER), has been actively targeting Armenians and Turkish-Armenian institutions on Twitter, claiming that these groups are part of a conspiracy supported by the Armenian diaspora against Turkey.
Civil society representatives argue that such action is tantamount to turning them into targets for ultra-nationalists in a country where prominent figures of Armenian descent as well as Christians involved in missionary activities have become targets of violence. The 2007 killings of three Bible publishers in Malatya, the 2007 murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and the 2006 murder of an Italian priest in Trabzon are some of the painful examples of the ultra-nationalist threat.
Armenian News
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