Turkey-based Armenian intellectual Sevan Nshanian receives
letters with threats
09-11-2009 17:10:00 | | Politics
ISTANBUL, NOVEMBER 9, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY.
Sevan Nshanian known in Turkey for his books and articles
published in the Taraf newspaper has reported at a recent press
conference that since October 29 he has received more than 400
death threats via Internet. According to Marmara, he is too
much concerned with the threats. Sevan Nshanian said in that
connection: "What happened to Hrant Dink can also happen to me.
People have freedom to express their opinion but the letters
with death threats I receive prove that those freedoms are
buried in oblivion."
The newspaper also reported that journalist and
intellectual Sevan Nshanian applied to Prosecutor's Office
with a lawsuit of receiving death threats.