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TURKISH MILITARY OFFICERS SENTENCED TO 6 MONTHS IN DINK CASE
www.worldbulletin.net
June 2 2011
Turkey
A colonel and a captain of the Turkish gendarmerie have been sentenced
to 6 months in jail for misconduct in Hrant Dink case.
Eight suspects including 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 standing trial for failing to prevent the
killing of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist who was killed
in Istanbul in 2007.
Also, the Trabzon court ordered 4 months prison sentence for four
other gendarmerie officers. The court acquitted two others.
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 a
suspected associate who was identified as Yasin Hayal. Hayal, together
with another suspected instigator Erhan Tuncel, was the man suspected
of giving the orders to Ogun Samast to murder journalist Hrant Dink.
Samast, Hayal and Tuncel were residents of Trabzon.
www.worldbulletin.net
June 2 2011
Turkey
A colonel and a captain of the Turkish gendarmerie have been sentenced
to 6 months in jail for misconduct in Hrant Dink case.
Eight suspects including 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 standing trial for failing to prevent the
killing of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist who was killed
in Istanbul in 2007.
Also, the Trabzon court ordered 4 months prison sentence for four
other gendarmerie officers. The court acquitted two others.
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 a
suspected associate who was identified as Yasin Hayal. Hayal, together
with another suspected instigator Erhan Tuncel, was the man suspected
of giving the orders to Ogun Samast to murder journalist Hrant Dink.
Samast, Hayal and Tuncel were residents of Trabzon.