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DINK'S HITMAN SENTENCED TO ALMOST 23 YEARS IN PRISON
Anadolu Agency
July 25, 2011
Turkey
ISTANBUL - A juvenile court in Istanbul has sentenced Ogun Samast,
the gunman in the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink,
to nearly 23 years in prison.
The court ruled Monday that Samast shall be sent to prison for 22
years 10 months on charges of "premeditated murder" and "possession
of an unregistered weapon".
Dink, the editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly
Agos, was shot dead outside the newspaper's offices in Istanbul's
Sisli neighborhood on January 19, 2007.
Police arrested the gunman Ogun Samast a day after the murder, and
since then, Samast was being tried at a juvenile court as he had been
a minor at the time of the crime.
Last month, Colonel Ali Oz, the then provincial gendarmerie commander
in the Black Sea province of Trabzon, and Captain Metin Yildiz, chief
of intelligence unit of provincial gendarmerie command in Trabzon,
were sentenced to 6 months in jail for "misconduct" in Hrant Dink case.
Anadolu Agency
July 25, 2011
Turkey
ISTANBUL - A juvenile court in Istanbul has sentenced Ogun Samast,
the gunman in the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink,
to nearly 23 years in prison.
The court ruled Monday that Samast shall be sent to prison for 22
years 10 months on charges of "premeditated murder" and "possession
of an unregistered weapon".
Dink, the editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly
Agos, was shot dead outside the newspaper's offices in Istanbul's
Sisli neighborhood on January 19, 2007.
Police arrested the gunman Ogun Samast a day after the murder, and
since then, Samast was being tried at a juvenile court as he had been
a minor at the time of the crime.
Last month, Colonel Ali Oz, the then provincial gendarmerie commander
in the Black Sea province of Trabzon, and Captain Metin Yildiz, chief
of intelligence unit of provincial gendarmerie command in Trabzon,
were sentenced to 6 months in jail for "misconduct" in Hrant Dink case.