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Anadolu Agency, Turkey
June 2 1011
Two Turkish officers jailed for six months in slain journalist case
Trabzon, 2 June: 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 neighbourhood 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.
June 2 1011
Two Turkish officers jailed for six months in slain journalist case
Trabzon, 2 June: 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 neighbourhood 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.