ISTANBUL, AUGUST 1, ARMENPRESS: A group of Turkish intellectuals addressed an open letter to the Armenian President Robert Kocharian in which the authors express concern about the fate of Turkish scientist Ektan Turkilmaz who was arrested in Yerevan while trying to smuggle out of Armenia tens of books “of historical and cultural value” dating back to 17 and 20 centuries. In the letter, published in the Turkish Daily News, the authors say they are sure that Turkilmaz violated the law unknowingly.
“No one warned him against it,” wrote Turkish intellectuals, calling on the Armenian authorities not to sharpen the tensed and fragile relations between Armenia and Turkey. According to the Armenian national security service, Ektan Turkilmaz, 33, a Turkish citizen from Istanbul and a student of a US-based Duke University, in North Carolina, was arrested aboard a plane bound from Yerevan to Istanbul.
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