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TURKISH FARCE IN HRANT DINK TRIAL
NEWS.am
January 19, 2012 | 13:58
ISTANBUL. - The circus continues after the show trial into the murder
of Hrant Dink, the founder and former chief editor of Istanbul's Agos
Armenian weekly, who was killed in 2007. And this time the public
is extremely surprised at the announcement of Rustem Eryilmaz, the
judge who presided over Dink's murder trial.
Eryilmaz said the court case did not reveal the background. "With
the ruling, the accused were acquitted of being members of a criminal
group, but this does not mean such criminal group does not exist.
Juridically, we simply did not find the necessary evidence. I believe
the idea for the murder was not that of Yasin Hayal. The ruling
satisfied no one. And if they were to ask me, I would say, yes,
I was not satisfied by the verdict, too," the trial's judge noted,
Haberturk of Turkey informs.
To note, 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. The court also found the nineteen
defendants not guilty of being members of a terrorist organization.
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 19, 2012 | 13:58
ISTANBUL. - The circus continues after the show trial into the murder
of Hrant Dink, the founder and former chief editor of Istanbul's Agos
Armenian weekly, who was killed in 2007. And this time the public
is extremely surprised at the announcement of Rustem Eryilmaz, the
judge who presided over Dink's murder trial.
Eryilmaz said the court case did not reveal the background. "With
the ruling, the accused were acquitted of being members of a criminal
group, but this does not mean such criminal group does not exist.
Juridically, we simply did not find the necessary evidence. I believe
the idea for the murder was not that of Yasin Hayal. The ruling
satisfied no one. And if they were to ask me, I would say, yes,
I was not satisfied by the verdict, too," the trial's judge noted,
Haberturk of Turkey informs.
To note, 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. The court also found the nineteen
defendants not guilty of being members of a terrorist organization.
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