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    PRISON FOR OFFICERS IN MURDER CASE OF TURKISH-ARMENIAN JOURNALIST

    Monsters and Critics.com
    June 2 2011

    Istanbul - A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced six military officers
    to up to six months' prison, in connection with the murder of prominent
    Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, the semi-official Anatolia
    Agency reported.

    Dink, the editor-in-chief of bilingual Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos,
    was gunned down in front of his office in Istanbul on January 19, 2007.

    The former gendarmerie commander for the Black Sea city of Trabzon and
    a captain who was chief of intelligence in the provincial gendarmerie
    were each sentenced to six months in prison.

    Four other officers received prison sentences of four months each,
    while two were acquitted.

    The Trabzon court convicted the officers of negligence in preventing
    Dink's murder, by ignoring intelligence pertaining to a plot to kill
    the outspoken journalist.

    Dink had been tried twice and convicted once for 'insulting
    Turkishness' for articles he published on Armenian issues in Turkey,
    drawing the ire of ultra-nationalists.

    Ogun Samast, a then-17-year-old youth from Trabzon who has confessed
    to the shooting, is currently on trial for the murder.

    Samast is alleged to have been recruited by a group that had been
    plotting to kill Dink for up to a year beforehand.

    Lawyers for Dink's family have accused authorities of taking
    insufficient measures to protect the journalist, who had received
    death threats prior to his assassination.

    In September, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that
    the Turkish state had failed to protect Dink's life and his freedom
    of expression and ordered the government to pay compensation to
    his family.


    From: Baghdasarian
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