{"id":10226,"date":"2016-10-26T14:37:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=10226"},"modified":"2016-10-26T14:37:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:37:58","slug":"freesevan-ancas-letter-of-solidarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=10226","title":{"rendered":"#FreeSevan: ANCA&#8217;s Letter of Solidarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On September 23, 2016 friends of Sevan Nisanyan &#8211; a dissident writer and courageous intellectual unfairly imprisoned by the Erdogan regime since January of 2014 &#8211; organized a ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey to celebrate the William Saroyan Medal bestowed <!--more Continue reading \/ \u0531\u0574\u0562\u0578\u0572\u057b\u0568 \u2192--> upon him by Armenia&#8217;s Diaspora Ministry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of this evening, leaders of the International Committee for Freedom and Justice for Sevan Nisanyan read messages of solidarity sent from around the world, including from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ancagrassroots\/\">Armenian National Committee of America<\/a> (ANCA). Here is the ANCA&#8217;s letter, read aloud in the Turkish language (the English text is provided below).<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/93eA8KYe2Ss\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/asbarez.com\/155207\/jailed-author-sevan-nisanian-awarded-william-saroyan-medal\/\">Click here<\/a> for full Asbarez coverage of the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ANCA Letter of Solidarity for the Release of Sevan Nisanyan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dear Sevan:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You have been aptly described as Turkey\u2019s conscience \u2013 a writer, intellectual and iconoclastic dismantler of officially imposed history. A respected etymologist and famed polymath. A proud Armenian, a citizen of Turkey educated by two of America\u2019s most prestigious universities, Yale and Columbia, you have never been afraid to challenge orthodoxy or fight for human freedom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And for this, you have been unjustly imprisoned for nearly three years, far too often in solitary confinement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Turkish government has \u2013 against all evidence and reason \u2013 attempted to defend your unjust imprisonment due to a building code violation. We understand, in fact, that you are the only person in prison in Turkey for a building code violation. And this for building on your very own property.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As deeply outraged as we are by your unjust imprisonment, we have not been surprised by your harsh treatment at the hands of a government run by a man who \u2013 on top of all his other crimes \u2013 committed one of the most monumental building code violations of Turkey\u2019s history \u2013 building a $615 million, 1,150-room presidential palace on protected land, in defiance of a court order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Neither Turkey\u2019s selective application of its own laws nor its undemocratic persecution of its own citizens is lost on its international partners, even if these governments lack the courage to challenge these flagrant injustices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Turkey\u2019s only inmate serving time for a zoning violation, it is clear to all the world that you have been persecuted not for the location of your construction but rather for expression of your conscience \u2013 and, also, sadly, it must be noted, because of your Armenian heritage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before you were imprisoned, you presciently warned of rising intolerance for speech in Turkey. You were tragically right. All that you foresaw has come to pass, and more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In these trying times \u2013 amid such a violent crackdown on all forms of dissent \u2013 Turkey needs more free speech, not less. More debate, not less democracy. More hope and less fear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a country, where Armenians are one the most targeted groups for hate speech and the President himself considers being called an \u201cArmenian\u201d an insult, who can deny the role your Armenian identity has played in your persecution?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a country where the masterminds of Hrant Dink\u2019s cold-blooded murder still walk free, who can deny the role your Armenian identity has played in your persecution?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a country whose government promotes Armenian Genocide-denial within and even outside its borders and where demonstrators at government backed rallies openly chant, \u201cA good Armenian is a dead Armenian,\u201d who can deny the role your Armenian identity has played in your persecution?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On this occasion, as you receive the William Saroyan Award from Armenia\u2019s Diaspora Minister, we recall this great author\u2019s defiant words, \u201cGo ahead, destroy Armenia. See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again.\u201d In your example, we see the steel will behind Saroyan\u2019s words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We congratulate you on this prestigious award and hope to meet you soon as a free man. We again call on our United States government, including Ambassador John Bass, to advocate for your immediate release. We will continue to fight for your freedom in defense of free speech and in the interest of a more pluralist, democratic, and progressive future for all the citizens of Turkey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aram Hamparian<br \/>\nExecutive Director<br \/>\nANCA | Armenian National Committee of America<br \/>\n#FreeSevan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u0532\u0561\u0576\u057f\u0561\u0580\u056f\u057e\u0561\u056e \u057a\u0578\u056c\u057d\u0561\u0570\u0561\u0575 \u0574\u057f\u0561\u057e\u0578\u0580\u0561\u056f\u0561\u0576\u056b \u0576\u0561\u0574\u0561\u056f\u0568\u055d \u0540\u0561\u0575 \u0564\u0561\u057f\u056b \u0531\u0544\u0546 \u0570\u0561\u0576\u0571\u0576\u0561\u056d\u0574\u0562\u056b \u0572\u0565\u056f\u0561\u057e\u0561\u0580\u056b\u0576<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(yerkirmedia.am, 16 \u0576\u0578\u0575\u0565\u0574\u0562\u0565\u0580 2016) \u054a\u0578\u056c\u057d\u0561\u0570\u0561\u0575 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