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TURKISH PROSECUTOR ASKS FOR LIFE OVER ARMENIAN JOURNALIST MURDER SUSPECTS
www.worldbulletin.net
Sept 19 2011
Turkey
The prosecutor accused the suspects for attempting to destroy the
democratic regime by use of force and violence.
An Istanbul prosecutor asked for aggravated life imprisonment --
the severe punishment under the Turkish Penal Code -- for seven
suspects including Yasin Hayal and Erhan Tuncel in the killing of
Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
The prosecutor accused the suspects for attempting to destroy the
democratic regime by use of force and violence under a provision of
the Turkish Penal Code Article 309, which specifies "crimes against
the constitution."
The prosecutor also said Tuncel and Hayal masterminded the murder as
part of the Ergenekon, an alleged clandestine network of senior army
officers, academics, businessmen and others who have been on trial
since October 2008 on charges of plotting to use terrorist methods
to overthrow elected government.
Dink was shot dead outside the offices of his weekly Agos in on
January 19, 2007. Last July, a juvenile court in Istanbul sentenced
Ogun Samast, the self-confessed murderer of Dink, to nearly 23 years
in prison.
www.worldbulletin.net
Sept 19 2011
Turkey
The prosecutor accused the suspects for attempting to destroy the
democratic regime by use of force and violence.
An Istanbul prosecutor asked for aggravated life imprisonment --
the severe punishment under the Turkish Penal Code -- for seven
suspects including Yasin Hayal and Erhan Tuncel in the killing of
Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
The prosecutor accused the suspects for attempting to destroy the
democratic regime by use of force and violence under a provision of
the Turkish Penal Code Article 309, which specifies "crimes against
the constitution."
The prosecutor also said Tuncel and Hayal masterminded the murder as
part of the Ergenekon, an alleged clandestine network of senior army
officers, academics, businessmen and others who have been on trial
since October 2008 on charges of plotting to use terrorist methods
to overthrow elected government.
Dink was shot dead outside the offices of his weekly Agos in on
January 19, 2007. Last July, a juvenile court in Istanbul sentenced
Ogun Samast, the self-confessed murderer of Dink, to nearly 23 years
in prison.