PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkish prosecutors have demanded a 17-year prison sentence for the Istanbul provincial head of the Republican People Party (CHP) over her social media posts about the Armenian Genocide between 2012 and 2014, Cumhuriyet newspaper reported.
The prosecutors accused Canan Kaftancıoğlu of insulting the president and other public officials, provoking hatred and animosity in society and terrorism propaganda over her posts on Twitter, Ahval says.
The investigation into Kaftancıoğlu, who the opposition say played a vital role in CHP’s victory on March 31 local elections in Istanbul, was launched in January 2018.
“By saying deep state in fact we add mysticism to the events and clear the state. The state committed those murders,” said the politician in one of the tweets the case refers to.
“The Armenian Genocide began on this day in history. We are commemorating our Armenian citizens who were massacred,” said another of the tweets.
One tweet that has in recent weeks been widely shared by pro-government accounts to den...
