Meanwhile in Turkey, the son and a colleague of the slain Armenian-Turkish editor Hrant Dink have been given suspended jail sentences for writing about the Armenian genocide. Arat Dink and Sarkis Seropyan were found guilty of insulting Turkishness.

Attorney Fethiye Cetin: “They have been charged just because they published a story in their newspaper. This verdict shows that in Turkey to make a news story about Hrant Dink, who says that there was an Armenian genocide in 1915, is a crime.”

Hrant Dink was slain outside his office in January in what many believe was a political killing for his efforts to challenge Turkish denial of the Armenian genocide.