Instead, the court stated that the book's translator Atilla Turgun has the responsibility regarding the alleged crime of "degrading and insulting the atate and the Republic" as well as "insulting Atatürk's legacy".
On another account, Zarakolu faces 6 years in prison for publishing McGill University staff Prof. Dora Sakarian's "An Armenian Doctor's Memoirs-İzmir Diary of Garabet Hacerian".
This trial is postponed to June 26 in order to take the testimony of its translator H. Zafer Korkmaz. The allegations rest on "insulting Turkishness" and "degrading and insulting the military" on this case.
Both books undertake the Armenian issue with relation to Turkey's official approach towards it.
Finally, Prof. Atilla Yayla's case where he's tried with "insulting Ataturk", the founding father of the modern Turkish Republic, with regard to his statements in a conference last November continues.
The trial has been postponed to July 2. Yayla faces 4,5 years in prison if convicted.(EÜ)
