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REPORT: 2 TURKISH SOLDIERS JAILED
02 June 2011
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced two
military officers to six months in prison for ignoring intelligence
that may have prevented the killing of a prominent ethnic Armenian
journalist, the state-run news agency reported.
Hrant Dink, chief editor of the minority Armenian Agos newspaper,
was fatally shot by an alleged hardline nationalist teenager outside
his office in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007. He had received death threats
because of his comments about perhaps the darkest episode of Turkey's
history, the massacres of Armenians during World War I.
The teenager and two other suspects are on trial in Istanbul for
Dink's murder.
The court in Trabzon, northern Turkey, found Col. Ali Oz, a former
gendarmerie commander, and Capt. Metin Yildiz guilty of neglecting
their duties, the Anatolia news agency reported. Four other officials
were each given four-month sentences.
The officers were accused of not acting on intelligence indicating
that one of the three suspects now on trial, Yasin Hayal, was planning
to kill Dink.
The officers, who denied any wrongdoing, were expected to appeal
their convictions.
02 June 2011
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced two
military officers to six months in prison for ignoring intelligence
that may have prevented the killing of a prominent ethnic Armenian
journalist, the state-run news agency reported.
Hrant Dink, chief editor of the minority Armenian Agos newspaper,
was fatally shot by an alleged hardline nationalist teenager outside
his office in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007. He had received death threats
because of his comments about perhaps the darkest episode of Turkey's
history, the massacres of Armenians during World War I.
The teenager and two other suspects are on trial in Istanbul for
Dink's murder.
The court in Trabzon, northern Turkey, found Col. Ali Oz, a former
gendarmerie commander, and Capt. Metin Yildiz guilty of neglecting
their duties, the Anatolia news agency reported. Four other officials
were each given four-month sentences.
The officers were accused of not acting on intelligence indicating
that one of the three suspects now on trial, Yasin Hayal, was planning
to kill Dink.
The officers, who denied any wrongdoing, were expected to appeal
their convictions.