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    People's Daily, China
    June 3 2011


    Military officers sentenced to jail over journalist death in Turkey


    09:06, June 03, 2011


    Six Turkish military officers were sentenced to months in jail on
    Thursday for failing to prevent the murder of Hrant Dink, a famous
    Turkish-Armenian journalist, in 2007, local media reported.

    A total of eight suspects stood trial over the case in a court in
    north Turkey's Trabzon province, with Colonel Ali Oz, then Trabzon's
    provincial gendarmerie commander, and Captain Metin Yildiz, chief of
    intelligence unit of the provincial gendarmerie command, sentenced to
    six months in jail for misconduct in the case, the Anatolia news
    agency reported.

    Four other gendarmerie officers were given four months of
    imprisonment, while the other two were acquitted, the report said.

    Dink, editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos,
    was shot dead outside the newspaper's offices in Istanbul's Sisli
    neighborhood on Jan. 19, 2007.

    Before the killing, Dink had been convicted of insulting Turkey 's
    identity over his comments on the alleged Armenian genocide by Ottoman
    Turks during World War I and received a six-month suspended sentence.
    He had also received threat from nationalists who considered him as a
    traitor.

    Police arrested the gunman Ogun Samast a day after the murder and a
    suspected instigator identified as Yasin Hayal. Both the two men and
    another suspected instigator Erhan Tuncel were residents of Trabzon,
    according to Anatolia.

    Turkey denies the genocide charge and insists the Armenians were
    victims of widespread chaos and governmental breakdown as the
    600-year-old Ottoman Empire collapsed before modern Turkey was born in
    1923.

    Source: Xinhua

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