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TURKISH COURT FORGETS DELIVERING VERDICT ON ONE DEFENDANT IN HRANT DINK MURDER TRIAL
NEWS.am
January 18, 2012 | 15:12
ISTANBUL. - The Turkish court made another comical blunder in the
murder trial of Hrant Dink, the founder and former chief editor of
Istanbul's Agos Armenian weekly, who was killed in 2007.
The court announced its ruling for the eighteen defendants being
tried, but it forgot about Coskun Igci, the nineteenth defendant. So,
the court will reconvene to deliver a verdict on Igci, Hurriyet daily
of Turkey informs.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, on Tuesday, the Turkish
court found Yasin Hayal guilty of planning and organizing Hrant Dink's
murder, and sentenced him to life in prison. Erhan Tuncel, on the
other hand, was found not guilty of prompting Dink's murder, and,
instead, he was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months for an explosion
in a McDonald's store. But taking into account that Tuncel was already
incarcerated for that amount of time, the court ruled his release.
And earlier, Hrant Dink's actual killer, Ogun Samast, was sentenced to
a total of 22 years and 10 months for Dink's murder and for bearing
illegal arms. But Samast was tried at a juvenile court, since he was
a minor at the time of the murder.
From: Baghdasarian
NEWS.am
January 18, 2012 | 15:12
ISTANBUL. - The Turkish court made another comical blunder in the
murder trial of Hrant Dink, the founder and former chief editor of
Istanbul's Agos Armenian weekly, who was killed in 2007.
The court announced its ruling for the eighteen defendants being
tried, but it forgot about Coskun Igci, the nineteenth defendant. So,
the court will reconvene to deliver a verdict on Igci, Hurriyet daily
of Turkey informs.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, on Tuesday, the Turkish
court found Yasin Hayal guilty of planning and organizing Hrant Dink's
murder, and sentenced him to life in prison. Erhan Tuncel, on the
other hand, was found not guilty of prompting Dink's murder, and,
instead, he was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months for an explosion
in a McDonald's store. But taking into account that Tuncel was already
incarcerated for that amount of time, the court ruled his release.
And earlier, Hrant Dink's actual killer, Ogun Samast, was sentenced to
a total of 22 years and 10 months for Dink's murder and for bearing
illegal arms. But Samast was tried at a juvenile court, since he was
a minor at the time of the murder.
From: Baghdasarian