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DINK'S FRIENDS SEND LETTER TO ERDOGAN
Hurriyet Daily News
Sept 15 2011
Turkey
Dink, a Turkish journalist of Armenian origin, was the chief editor
for weekly Agos and he was shot in front of his Istanbul office in
January 2007.
The friends of murdered Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink have
penned a letter just days before the journalist's birthday to Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan asking for those responsible for his
death to be held accountable.
"Our search for justice has been left null and void as [our efforts]
approach their fifth year. The state in its entirety that we have
petitioned saw itself as being close to the murderer.
At any rate, the murderer posed for a victorious poster of heroism
with the police and the flag," the letter said, referring to a
congratulatory photograph of Dink's self-confessed murderer, Ogun
Samast, with the police and a Turkish flag that was taken soon after
the suspect was apprehended in the wake of the 2007 assassination.
The letter also accused the government of promoting individuals who
threatened Dink, as well as the police chief who allegedly neglected
his duty to provide protection for the journalist. The letter also
rebuked security forces for glorifying the murder.
Camera records - many of which have been erased - suggested that five
people were involved in the murder, said the letter.
"Who are these people, Mr. Prime Minister? We want the murderers,
[both] the manifest and the furtive ones, in the name of justice,
and for righteousness to [prevail,]" said the letter.
Dink, a Turkish journalist of Armenian origin, was the chief editor
for weekly Agos, a paper published in both Turkish and Armenian. He
was shot in front of his office in January 2007; Samast was sentenced
to 22 years in prison last month.
Among the eight suspects who are being tried on charges of negligence
in preventing the murder are Trabzon Gendarmerie Commander Col. Ali
Oz and Gendarmerie Intelligence Unit Director Cpt. Metin Yıldız.
Hurriyet Daily News
Sept 15 2011
Turkey
Dink, a Turkish journalist of Armenian origin, was the chief editor
for weekly Agos and he was shot in front of his Istanbul office in
January 2007.
The friends of murdered Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink have
penned a letter just days before the journalist's birthday to Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan asking for those responsible for his
death to be held accountable.
"Our search for justice has been left null and void as [our efforts]
approach their fifth year. The state in its entirety that we have
petitioned saw itself as being close to the murderer.
At any rate, the murderer posed for a victorious poster of heroism
with the police and the flag," the letter said, referring to a
congratulatory photograph of Dink's self-confessed murderer, Ogun
Samast, with the police and a Turkish flag that was taken soon after
the suspect was apprehended in the wake of the 2007 assassination.
The letter also accused the government of promoting individuals who
threatened Dink, as well as the police chief who allegedly neglected
his duty to provide protection for the journalist. The letter also
rebuked security forces for glorifying the murder.
Camera records - many of which have been erased - suggested that five
people were involved in the murder, said the letter.
"Who are these people, Mr. Prime Minister? We want the murderers,
[both] the manifest and the furtive ones, in the name of justice,
and for righteousness to [prevail,]" said the letter.
Dink, a Turkish journalist of Armenian origin, was the chief editor
for weekly Agos, a paper published in both Turkish and Armenian. He
was shot in front of his office in January 2007; Samast was sentenced
to 22 years in prison last month.
Among the eight suspects who are being tried on charges of negligence
in preventing the murder are Trabzon Gendarmerie Commander Col. Ali
Oz and Gendarmerie Intelligence Unit Director Cpt. Metin Yıldız.